c^Ui REPORT 

of the 



COUNCIL OF 
DEFENSE 

of the 

STATE OF UTAH 




JANUARY ONE 
NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETEEN 





aass_ Xj52i)._ 



Book 






REPORT _2j1 

of, he '"" 



COUNCIL OF 
DEFENSE 

of the 

STATE OF UTAH 




JANUARY ONE 
NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETEEN 

L. H. FARNSWORTH, Chairman 
ARCH M. THURMAN, Secretary 



PRESS OF 

THE I". W. GARDINKR t O. 

SALTI^KE 



562- 






K ef *. 

^PR 2 19,9 



Salt Lake City, Jan. 1st, 1919. 

His Excellency Simon Bamberger, 
Governor State of Utah. 

My Dear Sir: 

The following report is submitted by 
the State of Utah Council of Defense. 

Whatever success has attended our 
efforts is due to the patriotic co-opera- 
tion of the citizens of Utah, who have 
at all times promptly responded to 
every call. 

The war record of Utah will always 
stand as an emblem of the high type of 
citizenship of the State. 

Sincerely yours, 

L. H. FARXSWORTH, 

Chairman. 



THROUGHOUT THE WAR 

By President Wilson. 

Throughout it all how fine the spirit of the nation was ! 
What unity of purpose, what untiring zeal ! What elevation 
of purpose ran through all its splendid display of strength, its 
untiring accomplishment. 

Throughout innumerable factories, innumerable farms, in 
the depths of coal mines and iron mines and copper mines, 
wherever the stuffs of industry were to be obtained and pre- 
pared, in the shipyards, on the railways, at the docks, on the 
sea, in every labor that was needed to sustain the battle lines, 
men have vied with each other to do their part and do it 
well. 

They can look any man-at-arms in the face and say, 
"We strove to win and gave the best that was in us to make 
our fleets and armies sure of their triumph !" 

And what shall we say of the women — of their instant 
intelligence, quickening every task that they touched ; their 
capacity for organization and co-operation which gave their 
action discipline and enhanced the effectiveness of everything 
they attempted ; their aptitude at tasks to which they had never 
before set their hands ; their utter self-sacrifice alike in what 
they did and in what they gave? Their contribution to the 
great result is beyond appraisal. They have added a new 
luster to the annals of American womanhood. 



ORGANIZATION 

The State of Utah Council uf Defense was bronchi into 
existence at the request of the Council of National Defense. 
In response to a call by the Governor of Utah a number of 
citizens met at the State Capitol, April 26, 1917. At this 
meeting the organization of the State Council of Defense was 
effected. The Governor explained briefly the purpose of organ- 
izing. The State Council of Defense was to act in conjunc- 
tion with the Council of National Defense and the state of- 
ficials of Utah. The authority for the organization of the' 
State Council of Defense is contained in a letter from Newton 
D. Baker. Secretary of War and Chairman of the Council of 
National Defense : 

"Council of National Defense, 

Washington, April 10, 1917. 

"To the Honorable Simon Bamberger, 
Governor of Utah. 

"Sir: The Council of National Defense, as empowered 
by act of Congress, August 29, 1916, is now engaged in the 
work of preparation for the war and in the co-ordination of the 
resources and energies of the nation. 

"It holds itself in readiness to co-operate with the states 
to bring about the most effective co-ordination of activities 
and procedure for the general good of the nation and the suc- 
cessful prosecution of the war and it invites the states to 
advise with it. 

"To further the prompt and energetic organization which 
the situation demands, it recommends the creation by the 
states of committees with broad powers, to co-operate with 
the Council — such committees to perhaps be known as State 
Councils of Defense — these committees to be representative 
of the state's resources. 

"Please advise us as promptly as possible of action being 
taken or contemplated in Utah in furtherance of the National 
Defense. Please send us full information with copies of all 
laws, proclamations and forms relating thereto. 

Verv trulv vours, 
(Signed) ' NEWTON D. BAKER. 

Secretary of W^ar and Chairman of Council of National 
Defense. 



A Committee on Permanent Organization was appointed 
and requested to submit a plan for the organization of the 
State Council of Defense. The following was submitted : 

"Salt Lake City, Utah, 

May 15, 1917. 

Mr. Chairman : 

''The conditions of modern warfare require thorough co- 
ordination of national, state, county, municipal and individual 
resources and abilities. If democracy is successful to defeat 
autocracy, broad-minded co-operation of all units is impera- 
tive. To this end the Council of National Defense has called 
a meeting of state representatives to consider the creation and 
effective use of State Councils of Defense to act in harmony 
with the National Council. 

"A plan for state organization has been worked out and 
is submitted in the interest of uniformity for the adoption 
of the states which have not already acted. The following 
text is explanatory of a chart of organization attached hereto : 

"(I) COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. Com- 
posed of Secretaries of War, Interior, Navy, Agriculture, Com- 
merce and Labor; created by an act of Congress; aided by a 
civilian Advisory Commission. 

''(II) THE STATE. The governmental unit within the 
boundaries of which are found the resources vital to the de- 
fense of the nation and from which authority to its Council 
of Defense must emanate. 

"(Ill) THE STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE. The 
National Council of Defense recommends that the states ap- 
point State Councils of Defense. Each State Council of De- 
fense should elect a chairman as its executive head. 

"The State Councils of Defense should co-operate with 
each other and with the Federal Government in organizing 
and directing the resources of the state in men and materials, 
and should recommend changes in the state laws which 
to make them available and effective for National use, 
may become -expedient. When the State Council exercises 
its powers and duties on a given subject at the request of 
the Council of National Defense, it is suggested that the work 
should be done in the manner and form prescribed by the 
National Council. 

"(IV) DISTRIBUTION OF FUNCTIONS. The fol- 



8 

lowing committees are suggested as probably expedient for 
appointment in most states : 

"(1) Finance. Tliis Coniinittce should be a committee 
on ways and means, where necessary ; otlurwise. should be 
a committee on administration of funds appropriated for the 
use of the state council. 

■'(2) Publicity. This committee should have the duty 
of controlling and disseminating information and carrying 
on the needed propaganda, having to do with the work of the 
Council. It should also conduct the educational work found 
necessary by the several committees. 

*'(3) Legal. This committee will advise the Council on 
legal matters, 

"(4) Co-ordination of Societies. The function of this 
cumniittee should be the co-ordination of the activities of the 
State Council with all bodies working in similar fields. 

"(5) Sanitation and Medicine. This committee should 
deal with all matters relating to hygiene, medicine and sani- 
tation. 

"(6) Food Supply and Conservation. The supply, dis- 
tribution and conservation of food, the avoidance of waste 
and all the other various allied subjects are assigned to this 
committee. 

"(7) Industrial Survey. The purpose of a state indus- 
trial survey is to supplement the survey of the Naval Con- 
sulting Board now in the hands of the Council of National 
Defense with information relative to plants not included in 
that survey, and to bring that survey up to date. It should 
be broad enough in scope to include all industries effective 
for war purposes. A standard form and method for taking 
this survey accompany these recommendations. 

"(8) Survey of Manpower. Until the Federal Govern- 
ment determines on the method of registration of manpower 
it is impossible to formulate an exact plan which will meet 
both state and federal requirements. 

"(9) Labor. This committee is concerned with the 
suj)ply. distribution and welfare of labor. 

"(10) Military Affairs. The primary duty of this com- 
mittee will be co-operation with the Federal Government in 
the creation of the National Army. It should also deal with 
a state guard when authorized. When the regular army or 
the national guard, or both, are to be brought up to war 
strength, an important recruiting duty will devolve upon this 



9 

committee and it may also render valuable service by assist- 
ing in the selection and procuring of camp sites and facilities. 

"(11) State Protection. This committee should keep a 
watchful oversight upon all important points of possible dan- 
ger to the State with the idea of planning and providing ne- 
cessary military or civil protection. 

*'(12) Transportation. There is not likely to be need 
for local assistance to the National Government in the rail- 
road field. Electric and motor transportation deserve and 
should receive careful consideration. Highways and water- 
w^ays are also of importance and their conditions throughout 
the state should receive careful study. 

''(13) Local Councils of Defense. Local Councils should 
be organized in such a manner as each State Council may deter- 
mine. 

"The Chairman is to be ex-officio a member of each com- 
mittee. 

"The number of members and personnel of each commit- 
tee shall be determined by the chairman, and may be changed 
by him from time to time. Upon recommendation of the 
chairman of any committee the chairman of the State Council 
may designate additional citizens to serve as an advisory 
council to co-operate with such committees. 

''The plan submitted by the Xational Council provides 
that the State Councils of Defense should co-operate with 
each other and with the Federal Government in organizing 
and directing the resources of the State in men and mater- 
ials, to make them available and effective for national use, 
and should recommend changes in the state laws which may 
become expedient. When the State Council exercises its 
powers and duties on a given subject at the request of the 
Council of National Defense, it is suggested that the work 
should be done in the manner and form prescribed by the 
National Council. 

"In addition to the foregoing, we recommend the selec- 
tion of the following officers, whose duties shall be similar 
to those customarily performed by like officers in other organi- 
zations. 

1. A "Vice Chairman. 

2. Secretary. 

3. Assistant Secretary. 

4. Treasurer. 



10 

In harmony with the phm of permanent orp:anization, 
cciinnittces were announced by the Chairman as follows: 

I'inance Industrial Survey 

Pul)licity Survey of Manpower 

Le-al ' I-il^<^'r 

Co-ordination of Societies Military Affairs 

Sanitation and Medicine State Protection 

Food Sui)ply and Conservation 'IVansportation 



By wav of emphasizing the importance of the activities 
to be undertaken there was submitted to the State Council of 
Defense earlv in 1^)17 the following recommendations from 
the National Council of Defense: 

State Councils were asked to assist the federal govern- 
ment by promoting patriotic spirit and educating the public 
as to the extent of the task ahead of the nation by: 

Aiding in recruiting for the National Guard : 

Aiding in recruiting for the regular army: 

Assisting in carrying out the enrollment for the army to 
be raised by conscription : 

Assisting in carrying out the enrollment for the army 
to be raised by conscription ; 

Planning a holiday— and making it a success— for the day 
of enrollment. 

Assisting iu the determination of exemptions from the 
draft on account of industrial, agricultural and other rea- 
sons ; 

Recruiting the additional men for the navy as now pro- 
posed : 

Maintaining standards in the matter of labor, including 
health and welfare; and also, standards of living; 

Preparing a system of clearing houses so that the worker 
and employer may be put in contact with each other: 

Assisting workers to use their "broken time" in helping 
farmers ; 

Assisting idle workers to helj) on farms; 

Getting boys below military age to help on farms; 

Helping in the cultivation of lands within the United 
States irrigation projects, on wdiich land and water are avail- 
able without the usual restrictions ; 

Similar use of private irrigation projects; 



11 

Helping to get land grant railroads to permit the use of 
their lands for cultivation and grazing; 

Similar use of state lands ; 

Getting mining bureaus to communicate with the Direc- 
tor of the Bureau of Mines about possibilities of increased 
production of minerals for war use ; 

Securing lessees for Indian lands in various states, in- 
cluding Utah ; 

Helping the Federal Government collect its war revenue ; 
assisting in the floating of the Lil>erty Loan ; 

Creating of a central food production committee affiliated 
with the State Council of Defense, perhaps including in its 
membership representatives of farmers' organizations and the 
land grant college and agricultural extension work, the State 
Agricultural Dairy Commissioner, and representatives of busi- 
ness and banking; 

Organizing and co-operating with the State Food Pro- 
duction Committee, appointing County Agents of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture on county committee ; 

Organizing of counties similarly ; 

Encouraging better methods of farming ; 

Increasing of staple and non-perishable food crops as 
much as possible ; 

Helping each community supply its own food require- 
ments as far as it can ; 

Encouraging greater use of home-grown foods : 

Helping to reduce waste in homes ; 

Providing means for preserving and drying food prod- 
ucts in communities where such assistance is needed : 

Encouraging greater activity against live stock diseases, 
insect depredations and other hindrances against production 
and conservation. 

Under the direction of the Chairman and Secretary these 
Committees became actively engaged in the various lines of 
activity indicated. For some time after the organization of 
the State Council of Defense the work was conducted through 
these various committees by the Chairman and Secretary. 
Later, as the work of the State Council became heavier and 
more complicated, it became advisable to appoint an Execu- 
tive Committee, which would have regular weekly meetings 
and would assume active direction of the work of the State 
Council of Defense with the co-operation of the standing 
committees which had been appointed. The value of the 



12 

Executive Committee became more evident as the work of 
the State Council continued. Many important matters needed 
immediate attention and the fact that the Executive Commit- 
tee met often made it possible that early action be taken on 
these im]H)rtant matters. 



LOCAL COUNCILS 

Earlv in V)\7 County Councils of Defense in the various 
counties were organized by the State Council of Defense. 
These County Councils were to assume active charge of war 
work in the respective counties, working under the direction 
of the State Council. County Councils were asked to appoint 
local or community Councils in the towns. The creation of 
these county and community Councils of Defense made it 
possible for the work of the State Council of Defense to be 
carried to the entire State and the efficiency of the organi- 
zation was thus assured. Public-spirited men and women were 
called to this service from all parts of the state. Many of the 
activities which the State Council undertook for the State 
were simply transferred to the County Councils, which or- 
ganizations assumed responsibility in its particular county. 
The organization of the County Council of Defense included 
a representative of the following activities: Finance, Publi- 
city, Legal, State Protection, Transportation, Industrial Sur- 
vey. Labor. Survey of Man Power and Women's Work. 



13 

COMMITTEE WORK OF STATE COUNCIL OF 
DEFENSE 

The following is a summary of the activities of the 
more important committees of the State Council of Defense 
from their organization to the end of 1918: 



EXECUTIVE 

An Executive Committee was created in December, 1917. 
Meetings were held weekly, at which meetings full consider- 
ation was given to the numerous problems presented. A full 
report was thereafter made to the general Council at its 
monthly meetings. 

PUBLICITY 

The various activities and programs of the State Council 
of Defense have been given an extensive amount of publicity 
through co-operation of the members of the state press and the 
various organizations which were in a position to assist the 
State Council activities. Under the direction of the Publicity 
Committee, State Council of Defense, all important activities 
and problems were presented to the people in such a way that 
general information was disseminated concerning these prob- 
lems. From time to time bulletins and circular letters on 
various topics were issued by the State Council of Defense. 
These bulletins and circular letters were widely circulated 
throughout the State with beneficial results. A part of the 
success of registration days throughout the State of Utah was 
due to the efficiency in which publicity was conducted under 
the direction of the Publicity Committee of the State Council 
of Defense. In addition to general information as to the par- 
ticular duties of registration day the publicity had the effect 
of creating a very favorable attitude toward military regis- 
tration, especially among the foreign-born residents of the 
State. The campaign of the Publicity Committee along the 
line of food production was most efficiently conducted. This 
publicity campaign had its effect upon the proud record Utah 
has made in the matter of food production and conservation. 

The publicity committee took an active part in the cam- 
paign conducted in August for the registration of young men 
for military training at the various colleges. The movement 
took the form of, "Enlist and go to college," and was con- 



14 

ducted activcl\' lliroUi^lioiit the entire State with the result 
that practically two thousand yoiniL^ men from the State 
enered the S. A. T. C. at the various schools. 

In addition to this a general sentiment was created among 
the girls of the State fa\t)ral)le to entering college to prepare 
for various vocations. 

FOOD SUPPLY AND CONSERVATION 

A few days previous to the declaration of war in April, 
1917, the President of the Agricultural College at the direct 
request of the United States Department of Agriculture called 
a meeting of the County Chairmen of that institution to con- 
sider ways and means of putting the agriculture of the State 
in a position to meet any emergency which might arise. At 
this preliminary meeting an organization was effected with 
the President of the College as Chairman and a member of 
the College Faculty as Executive Secretary. 

Upon the creation of the State Council of Defense, the 
organization arranged by the Agricultural College was 
merged into the Committee on Food Supply and Conserva- 
tion, and the President of the Agricultural College made Chair- 
man of the committee and the work temporarily transferred 
to Salt Lake, the Executive Secretary, designated by the Ag- 
ricultural College, acting in the capacity of Secretary of 
the Committee on Food Supply and Conservation, and Assist- 
ant Secretary of the Council. 

This arrangement continued until the passage of the Na- 
tional Food Control Act, when a Federal Food Administrator 
for Utah was appointed. The work of the Agricultural Col- 
lege, the Council of Defense and the Food Administration was 
merged — the Executive Secretary of the Committee on Food 
Supply and Conservation becoming Executive Secretary of 
the Federal Food Administration for Utah. 

This arrangement has continued to date, with the excep- 
tion that the Federal Food Administration for Utah created 
a Production Division of which the Executive Secretary be- 
came the Chief. 

The aim of the Production Section of this committee 
has been to stimulate the growing of staple food crops and 
to this end the committee has maintained constant and sym- 
pathetic contact with the growers, responding to every ap- 
peal for assistance with a view of averting any preventable 
loss in crop production. The establishment of new agencies 



15 

has been avoided as far as possible. The work of existing 
organizations has been co-ordinated to prevent any d-^pli- 
cation of efforts or waste of energy. Conspicuous among 
the co-operating forces are the Agricultural College with its 
extension forces, the U. S. Food Administration, U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture and the State Farm Bureau. Various State 
and private agencies and individuals have likewise unselfishly 
responded to every appeal for assistance which has been made 
upon them. 

The winter of 1916 and 1917 was unusually long and 
severe and the spring very late. The seed =^tocks, both com 
mercial and those in the hands of the farmers, were very low 
and one of the first problems attempted was that of supplying 
seed. First, in locating available commercial stocks, and sec- 
ond, providing financial assistance for the farmers who were 
unable because of the high prices to provide themselves with 
the seed necessary to plant the nvailable land. This work was 
handled by the Seed Committee, in co-operation with the 
Comm_ittee on Food Supply and Censer v^a+ion. The seed 
was furnished the growers, and where necessary a crop mort- 
gage bearing six per cent interest, payable at harvest iime, 
taken. This work was continued during the season of 1918. 
In the spring of 1917, seed to the amount of $31,773.61 was 
supplied; and the spring of 1918, $21,768.29 was advanced for 
spring planting and $1,262.25 for fall planting of grain, making 
a total of $54,804.15. The office detail was handled by the 
Secretary of the committee, while the field work, connected 
with the approval of the loans, was done by the County Ag- 
ricultural Agents of the Agricultural College and the Farm 
Bureaus. A tabulation of the amount of seed distributed is 
as follows : 





1917 


1918 


Fall 1918 


Variety 


lbs. 


lbs. 


lbs. 


Wheat 




358 022 


35 400 


Oats 


103,045 


45,936 




Barlev 




18,640 
1,750 




Potatoes 


417.094 




Beans 


41.607 


1.204 




Alfalfa 




924 




Miscellaneous 


840 


600 




Corn 


9.513 


'KJ'J 




Rve 




250 


2.111 



16 

The mobilizatiun of the inililiiry forces during 1917 caused 
an acute shortage of farm labor which required some special 
effort to meet. Especially was this true of labor for thinning 
the beet crop and later for the harvesting of crops. The 
problem of thinning beets was met by organizing the school 
boys of Salt Lake and other towns, including I'ooele. Park 
City, Garfield, Eureka and Frovo, into the Boys' Working 
Reserve of the I'nited States Department of Labor, A total 
of 528 boys were utilized in various parts of the State in this 
work. 

In addition to the work done l)\' the Ctjuncil in this connec- 
tion a great deal of work was done in various local communi- 
ties in organizing the juvenile labor to meet local emergencies. 
Besides the juvenile labor furnished, a total of 438 men were 
sent to various parts of the State at the request of County 
Agents and growers. This work was continued during the 
season of 1918, but the labor shortage in the spring of 1918 
was not as acute as in 1917 and, therefore, there was not the 
demand for this branch of service. However, in the fall of 
1918, an acute shortage of labor foi^ harvesting the beets and 
fruit arose and immediate steps were taken to meet the situ- 
ation by calling upon the Boys' Working Reserve. 

The war created a great many abnormal conditions which 
required considerable effort to adjust. During the fall of 1917 
there was a serious shortage of apple boxes. This resulted 
from the disturbances to the normal channels of the lumber 
trade. The growers for the most part left the ordering of 
their apple boxes until late in the season, as was theif^usual 
custom, and discovered that apple boxes were not available. 
The Council appointed a Special Committee to co-operate 
with the Committee on Fond Supply and Conservation to 
meet the situation. Through the efforts of this committee 
200.000 boxes were secured for delivery to the, growers, which 
resulted in considerable saving of fruit and allowed a normal 
marketing of the crop. 

The fuel situation likewise became serious during the 
summer and fall of 1917. Large industrial plants with thor- 
oughly equipped traffic departments were able to get coal, 
while men operating thrashers were unable to secure suffi- 
cient coal to operate their machines. This was made a special 
project and immediate delivery of 7S carloads of coal was se- 
cured and the situation relieved. 

Serious grasshopper outbreaks threatened the crops dur- 



17 

ing the growing season of both 1917 and 1918. The efforts 
of the committee in this direction were to see that the neces- 
sary materials were available and to organize affected areas 
to fight the pest. White arsenic, the poison commonly used 
to control this pest, was likewise affected by the war condi- 
tion, and the price had risen to almost prohibitive levels. A 
special arrangement was entered into with the United States 
Smelting Company, one of the leading producers of this com- 
modity, and a uniform price and immediate delivery secured 
for crop emergency work. During the season of 1917 and 
1918, 18,640 pounds of white arsenic were furnished to grow- 
ers in the grasshopper control work. Besides this other ma- 
terials to the amount of $234.75 were supplied. 

Owing to the light sno\vfall during the winter of 1917- 
1918, the supply of irrigation water for the growing crops of 
1918 was unusually low\ A very large acreage of the State 
was threatened wnth a serious reduction in yield because of lack 
of irrigation water. This was made a special project and an 
effort made wherever possible to secure w^ater for crops which 
w^ere threatened with destruction from drought. This work 
covered a wide range of activities. Local disputes involving 
the use of water, securing rights-of-ways for contributed 
water, the transfer of irrigation water to canals in drouth 
areas, and the use of water power rights for irrigation were 
among the features of this project. The foundation of this 
work was an appeal based on the National necessity for in- 
creased food production to which there was an unusually 
hearty response and sacrifice on the part of those contribut- 
ing the water. Under this project water for more than 5,000 
acres was supplied. 

The unusual demand upon the railroads for equipment 
has in many cases resulted in a car shortage for the movement 
of foodstuffs. Frequent complaints were received where cars 
were not available for moving perishable foodstuffs and live- 
stock. These complaints were vigorously followed and the 
matter taken up both with local railroad authorities and the 
Administration at Washington with the result that relief was 
secured. Notable among the efforts along this line was the 
movement of the peach crop from Utah County for 1918 when, 
through a patriotic appeal by the Food Administration, 152 
iced refrigerator cars were secured and the fruit crop of that 
district saved. During the fall of 1918. approximately 150 



562-: 



18 

sheep and cattle cars were, also, secured for the fall movement 
of livestock. 

The National necessity for increased sugar production 
was made the subject of a special project during the spring of 
1918. Through the Food Administration in co-operation with 
the Agricultural College and State Farm Bureau, a special 
campaign among all the beet growers was conducted which 
resulted, in spite of serious local opposition, in an increase 
of ten per cent in the acreage devoted to sugar beets. On 
this increased acreage sufficient sugar was produced to pro- 
vide the requirement of the State of Utah for one year under 
the rigid system of rationing inaugurated by the Food Ad- 
ministration. 

A special campaign for increased production of hogs 
was also conducted — the work consisting mainly of a distribu- 
tion of brood sows among the farmers which would other- 
wise have gone to slaughter. Very satisfactory results were 
obtained from the Hog Campaign. The Monthly Crop Re- 
port, issued by the Department of Agriculture for April. 1918, 
(Vol. 4, No. 4, Page 35), has some very interesting figures in 
this connection. Compared with the number of brood sows 
on the farms April 1st, 1917, Utah shows 120 per cent, which 
is the highest percentage of any State in the Union. A still 
more interesting fact is shown with the eleven Rocky Moun- 
tain and Pacific Coast states, with the exception of Nevada, 
Colorado and Wyoming, all the states show a decrease; and 
Nevada and Colorado being the only ones in this group be- 
sides Utah that show any increase. The average percentage 
increase for the whole United States is 109.5 per cent. 

A special campaign was also conducted to increase the 
poultry production of the State. A special appeal was sent 
to the public generally to increase their flocks of poultry to 
which there was a hearty response on the part of the people. 

While the efforts of this committee have been directed 
toward meeting emergencies which have been -created by the 
war, yet many of its activities will have permanent applica- 
tion. Precedents have been established and systems sug- 
gested w^hich will help very materially in increasing our agri- 
cultural efficiency, which will be an advantage to us in meet- 
ing the world competition which will follow the war. 

LIVE STOCK 

Among the first thinj^s attempted by the Livestock Com- 



19 

mittee was a campaign to increase the flocks and herds of 
the State and to protect them in every possible way from 
destruction. The livestock men were urged through the 
agency of this committee not to dispose of their female stock, 
but to keep them for breeding purposes. Farmers were urged 
to put small flocks of sheep on their farms. In this cam- 
paign the committee received the support and co-operation of 
the livestock organizations of the state. 

Reports were received from different parts of the State to 
the effect that livestock was being poisoned by alien enemies. 
One report stated that eight hundred sheep had been poi- 
soned. The committee immediately sent men to investigate 
these claims. Telegrams and thousands of letters were sent 
out to the livestock men of the State, warning them to be on 
guard against suspicious characters who might seek employ- 
ment. Any plot that might have been worked out for the 
wholesale slaughter of livestock was thwarted and no fur- 
ther losses were reported from this source. 

At the beginning of the war the prices of livestock and 
their products commenced to steadily advance. In the spring 
of 1917 the price of wool began to soar. The commission 
men and speculators seeing an opportunity to profit by the 
condition, contracted the Utah wool early in the season and 
sold same later for double the price paid. 

The Livestock Committee in its desire to protect and 
encourage the woolgrower made recommendations through 
the various organizations and agencies to have the govern- 
ment assume control of the wool for 1918, so that the specu- 
lator and profiteer could not obtain an advantage at the ex- 
pense of the producer, as they had done the previous year. The 
matter was taken up by the Government and a price for wool 
was fixed, much to the encouragement and advantage of the 
producer. 

Tremendous losses, estimated at one million dollars per 
year due to predatory animals, are sustained by the livestock 
men of this State. The committee urged upon the Government, 
the State of Utah and the various livestock organizations the 
necessity of enlarging the appropriation and of co-operation 
for the purpose of destroying these animals. 

The following report of the Utah State Livestock Board 
indicates the success achieved : 



20 

Extermination Predatory Animals in Utah 1917-1918 

Predatory Animals 
Trapped Poisoned 

First 6 months, 1917 1,000 5,000 

July 1. 1917-lune 30, 1918 3,824 15,000 

July 1. r)18^Xov. 30. 1918 1,734 1,000 

Totals 6,558 21,000 

Grand total 27,558 

Utah State Live Stock Board and U. S. Bioloi^ical Sur- 
vey co-operating. 

An educational campais^n along every line pertaining 
to the protection, increase and conservation of livestock was 
conducted and the livestock men responded almost unani- 
mously to all the calls made upon them in the way of doing 
everything possible to help win the war. The committee 
always tried to consider the best interests of the livestock 
men and at the same time render every assistance in their 
power to the support of the Government. 

Because of the close relationship that existed between 
the Livestock Committee and the Food Supply and Conser- 
vation Committee, the Livestock Committee also interested 
itself in the war that was being waged for the destruction 
of rodents. The Utah State Livestock Board distributed 
1500 ounces of strychnine in eleven counties. A like amount 
was furnished by County Commissioners and Farm Bureaus. 
This was distributed through, and used under the supervision 
of, the County Agricultural Agents, assisted by the Biologi- 
cal Assistant of the U. S. Biological Survey. We cannot get 
the exact data of the number of rodents killed, but some 
Count V Agents re])()rtcd the elimination of rodents over the 
areas treated. 

FINANCE 

One of the most important activities of the State Council 
of Defense during the period of its existence has to do with 
the financial obligations imposed upon the state by the Fed- 
eral Government in the form of Liberty Loans, War Savings, 
Red Cross and Soldiers' Welfare Funds. In each of these 



21 

activities the work of the State of Utah has been under the 
direct supervision of the State Council of Defense through its 
Finance Committee. 

Liberty Loans 

In the organization of the various Liberty Loan Drives, 
the Finance Committee has depended largely upon the co-op- 
eration of the County Councils throughout the State. For each 
of the Loans, the quota of the State was apportioned among 
the counties and each County Council of Defense was given 
the responsibility for its quota. The County Councils, in turn, 
made allotments to the various towns or districts and placed 
the responsibility of raising this sum upon the Community 
Councils, or a special committee appointed in each district. 

Considerable organization and detail work was necessary 
at the central headquarters in order to perfect and make ef- 
ficient the organization that would reach all of the small 
communities. It was the aim of the Liberty Loan Commit- 
tee to extend its organization so as to include every part of 
the state and to organize its committees so completely that 
an absolute canvas of every county of the State was assured. 

In addition to the state canvas the Liberty Loan Com- 
mittee in the various campaigns outlined and executed vari- 
ous plans for the purpose of increasing enthusiasm and there- 
by assuring larger subscriptions to the bond issues. The 
success of the Four Liberty Loan Campaigns is the direct re- 
sult of thorough organization and efficient work by all the 
committees, together with the patriotic enthusiasm of the 
general public. 

Red Cross Funds 

While the first and second Red Cross Drives for funds 
were not under the direct supervision of the State Council of 
Defense, the Red Cross organizations used, to a large extent, 
the State Council machinery throughout the State. In many 
of the counties, the County Council of Defense became the 
active body in securing its quota of these two drives. The 
State Council was actively co-operating in these drives in 
every way within its power. 



oo 



Soldiers' Welfare 
During; the summer and fall of 1917 two campaigns for 
tunds were conducted in the State for the purpose of sol- 
diers' welfare work. The Y. Al. C. A. Fund for $10,000 and 
the Soldiers' Welfare Fund for $100,000. In both of these 
drives the State Council of Defense again, assumed the in- 
itiative and succeeded in oversubscribing the quotas during 
the time prescribed. 

United War Work Campaign 
During the week of November 11 to 18, 1918. the nation 
was called upon for the largest amount of money ever given for 
war work in the form of United War Work Welfare Cam- 
paign, which embraced funds for the seven recognized war 
agencies. Utah's quota to this fund was $400,000. A most 
intensive and vigorous campaign was instituted throughout 
the State, with the result that again the State exceeded its 
quota. The County Councils of Defense in the State were each 
given definite quotas which in most cases were oversub- 
scribed. 

Results 

The success of these campaigns was possible only 
through the united co-operation of the people of Utah. The 
spirit of patriotism and sacrifice which has been manifest 
through the State during all of the drives is one of the things 
of which Utah should be most proud. In addition to this 
spirit of patriotism the success of the various campaigns was 
made possible through efficient and splendid organization of 
the central committees of these various campaigns and the 
united spirit and hard work of the sub-committees of the 
State Council of Defense throughout the state. The follow- 
ing results from the various drives will indicate the success 
oi the campaigns in the State: 

^. _ ., Quota , Raised 

Hrst Liberty Loan $ 6.500.000.00 $ 9.400 000 00 

Second Liberty Loan 10,000.000.00 16.200 000 00 

Third Liberty Loan 10.315.000.00 12.531.30000 

Fourth Liberty Loan 18.570.800.00 10.878.r)00 00 

First Red Cross Fund '___ 350.000.00 520.000 00 

Second Red Cross Fund 500,000.00 612,000.00 

Red Cross Membership Drive __ 49.000.00 67.000 00 

Soldiers' Welfare Fund 100.000.00 110,000 00 

Y. M. C. A. War Fund 10,000.00 10,000.00 

United War W^ork Campaign __ 400,000.00 412.000 00 



23 

War Savings 

The campaign for War Savings and Thrift 'Stamps 
throughout the state has been conducted under the direction 
of the Federal Director of War Savings and the State Central 
Committee. As has been the case with every financial obli- 
gation, the War Savings Committee has called largely upon 
County Councils of Defense to assume responsibility for 
County quotas, which have been assigned on the basis of 
population. The quota of War Savings for Utah has proved 
to be its hardest task. This is due to the fact that no cor- 
poration or individual is allowed to subscribe for more than 
$1,000 of War Savings securities. Considerable effort has 
been put forth by the State Council throughout the State in 
co-operating with the committee to help secure their quota. 
The campaign has extended over the year of 1918 and present 
indications seem to assure us that Utah will meet this obli- 
gation as she has met all of the financial obligations imposed 
by the federal government. 

COMMERCIAL ECONOMY BOARD 

Following the various general lines of work indicated by 
the National Council of Defense for preparing the merchants 
of the State to better withstand the conditions brought about 
•.)y the war, the Commercial Econoniv Board made possible 
an estimated saving of $2,000,000 per annum to the business 
men of Utah and the releasing of 1,500 men for war work. 

The total operating cost of the Commercial Economy 
Board, including the purchase of equipment, aggregated 
$3,924.24. Of this sum approximately $1,500 was expended 
for display advertising in the newspapers of the state and 
approximately $600 in the preparation and issuance of publicity 
to the riewspapers, the latter through the co-operation of the 
general publicity committee of the State Council of Defense. 

The Commercial Economy Board for Utah early in its 
work received national recognition. At the request of the 
National Council of Defense in April there was prepared a 
complete report of the plans and regulations issued and con- 
templated by the board at that time. This report was for- 
warded to Washington and shortly thereafter a request was 
made that copies of it be prepared and sent to other states for 
the guidance and aid of the Commercial Economy Boards in 
those sections. 



I tall was ann»n^ the tirst states of the L'nion to l3e^in an 
intensive commercial economy proj^ram. The Commercial 
Economy l>oar(l has been called upon many times by other 
states for detailed information relative to various regulations. 

Following the organization of the board a careful survey 
was made of the requests of the National Government and 
general plans were perfected and methods of operation were 
determined upon for carrying out the work in Utah. An 
appeal was issued to the public outlining the duties and aims 
of the board, and requesting the co-operation of the public in 
bringing about the fullest measure of success in the state. 

In the course of its work the board was given almost 
instantaneous endorsement and voluntary assistance from an 
estimated 95 ^/r of all business men of the State. The outstand- 
ing h^/c were converted by patient efYort and in a few in- 
stances by the exertion of some pressure. In every case busi- 
ness men were frankly told that the Commercial Economy 
Board had no police powers, but that the request for commer- 
cial economy emanated from the Council of National Defense 
through the State organization. 

The first specific problem handled by the board was the 
restricted delivery. The general recommendations classified 
the towns with concrete problems for each. In towns of less 
than 2.000 inhabitants, merchants were asked to eliminate all 
deliveries; in towns from 2.000 to 5,000 inhabitants, one deliv- 
ery a dav was urged, to be made in the afternoon and to 
comprise orders received in the morning of the current day and. 
during the preceding afternoons; in towns of 5.000 to 10,000 
inhabitants, one delivery a day in each of the two geographical 
zones, one zone to receive a delivery in the afternoon ; in 
towns of more than 10,000 inhabitants, one delivery a day 
over each route with the further recommendation that the 
geographical plan be used if possible. 

In the successful promulgation of this system a great deal 
of help was received from the patriotic women of the State, 
from the churchmen in urging the patriotic observance, from 
the motion picture theatres in flashing upon the screen slides, 
detailing the new system and from the newspapers in the shape 
of publicity, and in many cases, editorial support. The mer- 
chants themselves, both retail and wholesale, gladly co-oper- 
ated and confidential reports received by the board from them 
on specially prepared blanks, conclusively demonstrated sav- 
ings which totaled almost $2,000,000 per year, with but very 



25 

little inconvenience to the public, once the households were 
readjusted to the new methods of buying. In addition to the 
financial saving, the restriction of deliveries made possible 
the releasing of 550 men and boys for other work ; that is, 
the merchants were enabled to take care of their l)usiness with 
less help and greater efficiency. 

A very material economy was efTected in the delivery 
of milk and cream by the perfection of a regulation requiring 
the customer to provide an empty milk bottle each time a 
full one was delivered. This regulation had the effect of 
saving thousands of bottles. Incidentally the regulation made 
it possible to continue the delivery of milk in Salt Lake City 
in bottles, a condition which was seriously threatened last 
May, because of the fact that it was impossible to secure a 
new supply of bottles from the manufacturers. 

At a conference of laundry operators it was revealed that 
delivery costs in that line of business ranged from seventeen 
per cent to twenty-five per cent of the gross value of the bundle 
delivered. By the perfection of a zone system and the sug- 
gestion that patrons, wherever possible, turn in soiled clothes, 
a reduction of approximately 30% was made in the delivery. 
At the same time it greatly assisted the laundries in dis- 
tributing their work over a period of six days instead of five 
days as had been the custom. This in turn made possible a 
reduction in the working forces of approximately 15%, thereby 
releasing that many additional people for other essential war 
work. Practically the same regulations were used for the 
cleaning and dyeing industr}^ 

An attempt was made to regulate the delivery of ice by a 
zone system, whereby cities were divided into two sections, 
each to receive a delivery on alternate days. The plan worked 
perfectly in every section of the state except in Salt Lake 
City, where during a hot spell in July, some opposition arose. 
An investigation revealed the fact that the shortage of ice in 
some homes, was caused not so much by the delivery restric- 
tion as by the housewife using the ice for lemonade or ice 
water, or because she had left the house on the day the ice man 
was due to call. The difficulty was adjusted by the co-opera- 
tion of the ice companies in supplying an emergency service. 

Coincident with the delivery regulations appeals were 
made to manufacturers and big institutions to instill the 
spirit of saving among their employes. A committee of em- 
ployes to handle the matter in each individual plant was sug- 



26 

gestcd and proved very clTcctive. An appeal was made for the 
saving of woolen and cotton clothes and rags, with the re- 
sult that much waste in this regard wa^ eliminated. . 

The State Council of Defense in the month of May re- 
ceived instructions from the War Industries Board to dis- 
continue non-essential construction of every character during 
the period of the war. The 'question was turned over to the 
Commercial Economy Board and the operation of the regu- 
lation was started. Very little opposition was raised, except- 
ing in the case of the Pantages Theatre in Salt Lake City. In 
this case, the Commercial Economy Board ruled that the 
construction of the building was non-essential during the war 
and this ruling was eventually sustained by the authorities in 
Washington. During the fall the handling of non-essential 
construction w^as placed in the hands of a special committee 
of the State Council of Defense and the work was carried on 
under its jurisdiction. 

Following the suggestion received from the National 
Council of -Defense and a score of requests from merchants 
all over the State, the protection of a closing regulation for 
all kinds of retail business was undertaken. Opposition to the 
plan was voiced in Salt Lake City by restaurants. The State 
Council of Defense, at the suggestion of the Commercial 
Economy Board, placed the enforcement of the regulations 
in the hands of the several County Councils of Defense. 

Following the signing of the armistice and the determi- 
nation to disband the Commercial Economy Board, requests 
were received from many sections of the State asking that 
something be done to continue the work of the board, especially 
in so far as the restriction of deliveries was concerned. Simi- 
lar requests were made by the National Council of Defense. 
The Commercial Economy Board has written to each com- 
mercial organization in the State of Utah suggesting that they 
continue the work through proper committees with the local 
co-operation of merchants. Replies have been received from 
many of the organizations indicating that the plan meets with 
approval and that an annual post-war saving of many hundreds 
of thousands of dollars will result. 

NON-WAR CONSTRUCTION 

The State Council of Defense was asked by the War In- 
dustry Board to assume responsibility of acting as their rep- 
resentative in the State of Utah. Tn assuming this obliga- 



27 

tion it became the duty of the State Council to pass upon 
proposed construction in order that all buildings which were 
not absolutely necessary to the winning of the war might be 
curtailed during the war period. 

This plan had been adopted by the War Industry Board 
because of the imperative necessity of saving material, labor, 
capital and transportation for the essential industries. An 
agreement was entered into between the War Industry Board 
and the various dealers in material, throughout the nation, 
whereby no material would be furnished for any building 
until a permit had been issued for that building by the War 
Industry Board or the State Council of Defense. 

During the months of September, October and November 
the State Council was required to pass upon all applications 
for building. Under instructions from the War Industry 
Board it was necessary to investigate the necessity for the 
proposed building, the purpose for which it was to be con- 
structed and the approximate cost of construction. After in- 
vestigation the State Council recommended the approval or 
disapproval of the proposed building to the War Industry 
Board. 

In order to facilitate the work of this committee, com- 
mittees were formed in each county of the State to work 
under the direction of the County Council of Defense. Build- 
ings were first passed upon by the county committee and its 
recommendation, accompanied by the application, submitted 
to the State Council. 

During the period of activity of this committee applica- 
tions for building, totaling five hundred twenty-five thousand 
dollars, were reviewed and reported to the War Industry 
Board. With the signing of the armistice, on November 11, 
this part of the work of the State Council became inoperative 
and on November 15 all building restrictions were removed 
by the War Industry Board. 

WOMEN'S WORK 

When the Governor was asked by the Woman's Commit- 
tee of the National Council of Defense to appoint a Woman's 
Committee for Utah, the matter was taken up with the State 
Council of Defense and a committee was appointed, August 
3, 1917. The women selected were made members of the 
State Council. They immediately appointed an executive 



28 

CDiiiiuittcc ami cliairnR'u of ilcpartments to act as a central 
ciiiiiniittco. 

This committee was to act as a clcarini; house tor 
all the patriotic activities of women. The intent was to make 
use of all existing orp:anizations, thus conserving the force 
of wt)men and prrserNing intact organizations already in the 
field. 

In each county oi the State a Chairman of "Women's 
\\*ork" was appointed as a member of the County Council of 
Defense and was instructed to organize committees along 
similar lines to those of the central committee. 

The purpose of this organization was to co-ordinate and 
centralize the organized forces of the women of the State and 
to enlist the co-operation of the unorganized women in order 
that the (iovernment might know the patriotic work being 
done, and to secure the efficient co-operation of all the women 
of the State in the economic measures inaugurated by the 
Government from time to time. A direct and speedy channel 
between the departments of the Government and the women 
i)\ the State was established through this organization. 

In order that the friendly and efficient co-operation of all 
women's organizations in the State might be secured, the 
chairman called a meeting of representatives of clubs, religious 
organizations, fraternal societies, and all other known exist- 
ing women's organizations. This conference was held on 
Monday, October 8, 1917. A good showing of representatives 
from city and county organizations was in attendance, and 
the purpose and future plans of the Woman's Committee was 
explained. 

In October the work of the National Woman's Committee 
and the Council of National Defense was consolidated at 
Washington and a Field Division organized to supervise State 
Councils and Woman's Committees in the various states. 
Among the first suggestions of the ImcUI Division was a 
consolidation of the Woman's Work with the State Council. 
This had already been effected in Utah and Washington v.^as 
pleased to recognize Utah as the first state to eflPect consoli- 
dation. 

The following is a brief report ^)\ the xaricnis women's 
committees : 



29 

Education 

In the Department of Education the work was divided into 
two distinct lines of activity : First, the enhghtenment and 
encouragement of our aUen population ; Second, the enlighten- 
ment of the native born Americans who through ignorance 
and indifference do not concern themselves with the great is- 
sues of the war. It was pointed out. that strong effort should 
be made by each county chairman on education to turn every 
knocker into a booster for freedom and the methods that our 
country had adopted to win it. Committees were urged to 
concern themselves with the women in the home, to make 
use of the school system, the churches, the big industrial 
plants, and to call upon the University of Utah and the Agri- 
cultural College for assistance in the way of printed material 
concerning the war. Many circulars and much printed matter 
from Washington was distributed in the counties. /Attend- 
ance at night school was urged as well as the taking out of 
necessary citizenship papers. 

Earnest effort was made by the Woman's Committee to 
bring about active co-operation with the ]\Ien's Department 
of Education, as the large number of aliens in our State — 
over 70,000 — make the work one of magnitude and difficulty, 
requiring the united effort of both committees. The Woman's 
Committee on Education consists of five members with a 
special committee of twenty-five to carry on the work in Salt 
Lake City. Following instructions from W^ashington a joint 
committee of men and women was also appointed. 

During August a circular letter was sent to the girls of 
the State of Utah, with an enclosed pamphlet setting forth 
the needs of the country for trained service. 

Registration 

The Registration Committee was organized to direct the 
registration of women for voluntary service, so that definite 
information might be secured as to what service the women 
of the State were able and willing to render in case of emer- 
gency. In preparation for the day of registration, the Gov- 
ernor issued a proclamation calling upon the women of the 
State to offer their services to their country. Much publicity 
was given by all the State papers. Registrars were provided 
for the district polling places, both city and county. An official 
registration blank prepared in W^ashington was used. The 



30 

women responded well and in many polling places the regis- 
trar did not have sufficient cards to list all who applied. A 
second opportunity was given for those who could not regis- 
ter the first day. In all, 23,926 women registered for service. 
The cards indicated about thirty-five dilTerent lines of pro- 
fessional and untrained industrial activities. This list was 
placed at the disposal of the Red Cross and other organiza- 
tions, and when emergency demanded calls were made. 

The Health and Recreation Committee 

Much good was accomplished by the Health and Recre- 
ation Committee in co-operation with the Community Camp 
Service, The Child Welfare Committee, The Civic Recreation 
Committee, The Public Health and State Health organiza- 
tions. Public Playgrounds and Recreation Department. A 
Recreation Center for Adults was established at the old Y. W. 
C. A. grounds through the kindness of the officers of that or- 
ganization. A Hostess House was opened at the University of 
Utah for the boys in service, where women gave their services 
until ten o'clock each evening. Music and dancing programs 
w^ere provided twice a week. A hospitality committee ar- 
ranged for home dinners for the soldiers each Sunday for a 
period of time. A campaign for a Patriotic Play and Recre- 
ation Week was successfully carried on by the Civic Recre- 
ation Department, about 5,000 children and adults participat- 
ing. Health work was introduced into the high schools. The 
Recreation Center begun during the summer of 1918 will be 
continued in the form of a Girls' Club. This was made pos- 
sible through the assistance of the city and the Fosdick Com- 
mittees. 

Food Administration 

The Committee on Food Administration reported a saving 
of 8,000 bushels of wheat as a result of the wheat and flour 
campaign. Owing to demonstrations and exhibits, substitutes 
were used with good results. A campaign for the saving of 
surplus potatoes was made, resulting in 6,500 pounds of potato 
starch. Talks and demonstrations in canning without sugar 
were given with satisfactory results. A cottage cheese cam- 
paign was successfully conducted in co-operation with Gov- 
ernment experts. Fifty-four meetings were held with 1,149 
in attendance. 



31 

In addition to the work in foods, help was given in the con- 
servation of clothing. Through demonstration schools in re- 
modeling, renovation, cleaning and pressing suits at home, 
millinery renovation, four counties reported a total cash sav- 
ing of $10,919.00. 

Food Supply and Conservation 

The Food Supply and Conservation Committee mailed 
conservation suggestions to all county chairmen. The Na- 
tional Regulations under which five prizes were given by the 
National War Garden Commission were sent in letter form to 
the five largest cities in Utah. These cities were asked to 
compete in the contest on canning vegetables grown in war 
gardens. During the months of June and July a community 
kitchen situated at 149 Regent Street, Salt Lake City, held 
demonstrations in preservation and canning of fruits and 
vegetables, as well as in the conservation of old clothing. A 
clinic in child conservation was also conducted. 

A set of outlines in Home Economics and Conservation 
of Food was prepared in the fall of 1917, and used in prac- 
tically every county in the State, co-operating with the exten- 
sion department of the Agricultural College and the Home 
Demonstrators. The subjects covered were : Food Values, 
Food Waste, Cereals. Milk and Meat. A Municipal Market 
was operated where prices and conditions for marketing were 
in a measure controlled. The market had in connection with it 
a community kitchen, where surplus fruits and vegetables 
were canned and sold. The entire project was under the di- 
rection of the women's organizations and financed by the Salt 
Lake City Council of Defense. 

Many women throughout the State, in response to an ap- 
peal from the Council of Defense, planted and cared for ex- 
cellent war gardens. They were especially successful in the 
raising of beans and potatoes. 

Woman's Liberty Loan Committee 

The Woman's Liberty Loan Committee began with an 
executive committee of nine meml^ers, subdivided to handle 
Educational, Religious, Fraternal and Women's Clubs ac- 
tivities. This executive committee sent frequent letters 
throughout the State, keeping in close touch with all committee 
work. An advisory board was organized, consisting of forty- 



-32 

one prominent L'tah women. The special business of this 
committee was to create sentiment in favor of participation 
by the in(hvi(Uial family in Liberty Hond subscriptions. The 
county chairmen were selected, wherever possible, from the 
Council of Defense organization. Ten days before the close 
of the Second Liberty Loan campaign, at a luncheon given 
at the Salt Lake Commercial Club by the executive commit- 
tee, one hundred and thirty workers pledged themselves to 
personally see about sixteen hundred women taxpayers and 
to report back to the executvie committee the day before the 
closing of the drive. Similar activities modified to meet 
conditions in various localities were promoted throughout 
the State during each dri\e. The intensive work conducted 
by the women reached into every woman's organization in the 
state and into a very large percentage of the homes. 

In some of the counties where the population is small and 
sparsely settled the men and women worked together <.)n joint 
committees. The women of the State have co-operated to the 
fullest extent and ha\e done very effective work during each 
campaign. 

Women in Industry 

The Committee on Women in Industry has concerned 
itself with looking after the welfare of women engaged in 
industrial work, ])articularly the women employed to take 
the places made vacant by men called into the service. It 
has advised that unthinking girls and women should not be 
allowed to undertake work that may prove injurious, but that 
effort should first be made to transfer men engaged in lighter 
employments before substituting women either in undesirable 
surroundings or at work for which they are unfitted. The 
committee has learned that the working conditions of women 
and children is being carefully watched by the State Indus- 
trial Commission. It has observed that girls employed in 
automobile stations are not required to do heavy lifting, and 
that girls employed to run elevators are in most cases over 
twenty-one years of age. 

Home and Foreign Relief Committee 

This committee is holding itself in readiness to do what- 
ever may be required at its hands in the coming reconstruc- 
tion work. Activities which may have come within the juris- 
diction of this committee have been so well conducted by 



33 

other relief and charitable organizations, that but little action 
has been deemed necessary on the part of this committee up 
to the present. 

Maintenance of Existing Social Service Agencies 

The Committee on the Maintenance of Existing Social 
Service Agencies had an important work to perform in the 
recruiting of 200 nurses from the State of Utah in the U. S. 
Student Nurse Reserve. This campaign claimed the per- 
sonal supervision of the State Chairman of Wom?n's Work. 
Headquarters were established at the Commercial Club, Salt 
Lake City. The office with a secretary in charge was opened 
for preliminary campaign work July 22nd, and remained open 
until the following October. From the beginning, active in- 
terest was manifested by the women of the State eager to 
serve the Nation in the most useful way. Each county was 
given an allotment of from one to twenty-one students. Most 
of the counties enrolled the number asked for. Eight different 
forms of application and registration blanks were used. High 
School and College students and graduates of Salt Lake City 
and County responded nobly to the call issued by the Gov- 
ernment, and many sacrifices, both of position and future plans, 
were laid upon the country's altar. Many of Utah's student 
nurses received notice of the acceptance of their enrollment, 
and a few have been assigned to posts of duty. 

Publicity 

The Women's Committee on Publicity has kept the 
county press chairman informed by the use of publicity cir- 
culars from Washington. The receipt of numerous clippings 
from the country newspapers indicate that good use was made 
of the material sent. All clippings of value were sent to 
Washington, thus keeping the National Headquarters in close 
touch with the work being accomplished in Utah. A commit- 
tee of women advertising writers was organized in Salt Lake 
City. This committee took charge of a trench on Main Street 
during the Third Liberty Loan. During the drive for student 
nurses excellent publicity was given through the picture shows 
by running films showing girls from various walks of life who 
were enlisting for humanity's sake and. in many instances, 
giving up good salaried positions. 



562-3 



34 

Child Welfare 

At the bcg-inninc: of this work the chairman of Women's 
Work was asked to take charge. A committee was appointed 
which later worked in co-operation with the State Committee. 
A chairman for women was appointed in each county. To give 
here a report oi this committee would be only to duplicate 
the report of the State Committee. 

CHILD WELFARE 

The experience of other countries involved in the war 
has shown that in time of war the ordinary needs of chil- 
dren are made more urgent and that certain needs present 
themselves which must be dealt with if national security is 
to be maintained. For this reason the Woman's Committee 
of the Council of National Defense felt that a Child Wel- 
fare Department was a necessary part of the program of war 
work to be assumed by them. 

At first the chairman of the Woman's Work Committee 
of the State Council of Defense was asked to take charge of 
this work, but later, when the conviction that a special child 
welfare program for the United States in war time was essen- 
tial, led the Child Welfare Department of the Woman's Com- 
mittee and the Federal Children's Bureau to join hands in 
adopting a Children's Year Program, the State Council ap- 
pointed a Child Welfare Committee. This committee followed 
the plan outlined by the Federal Authorities by adopting the 
"Children's Year Program" with the slogan, "Save 100,000 
babies and give the children a square deal." A campaign to 
accomplish this end was launched to extend from April 6th, 
1918, to April 6, 1919. 

The essentials emphasized in the Children's Year Program 
are : 

1. Public protection of maternity and infancy. 

2. Mother's care for elder children. 

3. Enforcement of all child labor laws and full school- 
ing for all children of school age. Standards should be main- 
1:ained in spite of war pressure. 

4. Recreation for children and youth, abundant, decent 
and protected from any form of exploitati(Mi. 

In each county the work was placed in the hands of a 
committee made up of the superintendent or superintendents 



35 

of schools, the chairman of the Parent-Teachers' Association 
or the Home and School League, the chairman of the Commit- 
tee on Sanitation and Medicine and the chairman of the County 
Woman's Committee. The work was explained to representa- 
tives of the woman's committees at a meeting held in Salt 
Lake City, April 8, 1917, and notices were sent to the county 
committees. The extension division of the University of 
Utah, through its Department of Medicine, prepared an ex- 
cellent leaflet dealing with the care of children from prenatal 
period to school age for the use of these committees. 

Promises of co-operation were given by the State Bureau 
of Health and Children's Bureau, the Department of Pubhc 
Instruction, the American Medical Association, the Xurses' 
Association, the Home and School League, the Parent-Teach- 
ers* Association, the Women's Federated Clubs, the Ci\'ilian 
Relief Committee of the Red Cross, the Utah Public Health 
Association, the Extension Division of the Agricultural Col- 
lege and other associations. 

The first work to be undertaken was the weighing and 
measuring of children of pre-school age. Its purpose was to call 
attention to the health needs of the children of the State and 
to get information as a basis of instituting follow-up cam- 
paigns to place the children who had physical defects on a 
normal basis by early correction of these defects. Cards for 
the tabulation of indi\^dual records of children were fumisned 
by the Children's Bureau. These cards were sent to each 
county chairman and the work of measuring and weighing 
children was completed in many counties. 

FoUow-up work is being carried on in Salt Lake City 
and Ogden. A recreation drive was successfully carried out in 
Salt Lake City through the co-operation of the City Depart- 
ment of Parks and Recreations and the City Child Welfare 
Committee. 

In Ogden an appropriation was made by the city com- 
mission for the establishment and maintenance of a Child 
Welfare Clinic and Dispensary'. This institution is now in 
operation. 

Interest in Child Welfare has been greatly stimulated in 
all parts of the State and this campaign will be continued 
through the spring of 1919. 



36 

MILITARY SURVEY 

In Auiiust. P>17. when ihc State Council of Defense was 
asked by tlie War Dei)artment to assume the responsibility 
of financing: and completing a Military Survey of the State, 
approximately fifty-five (55) per cent of the State had been 
reported upon by the Forest Service under the direction of 
the Forester of District No. 4. This survey includes the mak- 
ing of special Military Reconnaissance Reports and Progres- 
sive Military Maps of every section of the State for the in- 
formation of the War Department. A Special Agent and 
two assistants were appointed to take charge of the work 
under the supervision of the State Engineer. 

The State was theoretically divided into zones, or quad- 
rangles, of 15 minutes of latitude to 15 minutes of longitude, 
areas of approximately 13 miles in width and 17 miles in 
length, and a separate report is made on each quadrangle as field 
work on the same is completed, accompanied by a special mili- 
tary map of the zone reported upon. These reports contain data 
regarding physical conditions, description of the terrain in 
each zone, natural resources, etc., which might be required 
by a commander of troops assigned to military operations 
within a quadrangle. 

Each quadrangle report contains detailed information on 
topographical features, nature of soil, locations and descrip- 
tions of commanding positions, sections of land suitable for 
aeroplane landings, observation points, camp sites, climatic 
data, health and sanitary conditions in each section, locations 
and description of rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, 
springs and wells, reservoirs and water tanks, transportation 
facilities, including railroads, stage lines, wagons, pack horses, 
automobiles and their passenger capacity, etc., lines of com- 
munication — telephone and telegraph — power lines, and sub- 
stations. 

A feature of ])aramount importance in the Reconnaissance 
Reports is the information required by the War Department 
on roads, trails and bridges. Each road and trail is treated 
as a separate unit and described in detail, necessitating per- 
sonal measurements by employes of this department to ascer- 
tain the locations of excessive grades, curves, etc. Detailed 
descriptions of bridges of more than 20-foot span, together 
with sketches and photographs of the same, are included in 
the reports. 



37 

The reports include a complete survey of all industries 
in each zone ; their nature and number, together with the 
man power, or number of employes, and their nationalities. 
The population of cities and towns with the percentage of 
foreign born within the areas mapped, the principal industry 
in each, transportation facilities, lines of communication, 
water and fuel supply, natural forage, number of buildings 
and their dimensions (those that might be of use during mili- 
tary operations) kind and quantity of supplies on hand, and, 
in fact, any information that might appear in the judgment 
of the reporting officer of military value, is given. 

Up to December 1, 1918, sixty-three (63) quadrangle re- 
ports had been completed and forwarded in duplicate to the 
War Department. Each report was accompanied by a 
progressive military map of the area being reported upon, 
showing the locations by a system of numbers of points of 
vulnerability and other particular features desired by the 
War Department. The territory so far covered by the survey 
under the auspices of the State Council of Defense, comprises 
approximately 13,923 square miles, the quadrangles being 
embraced by Box Elder, Cache, W^eber, Davis, Salt Lake, 
Tooele, Utah, Juab and Millard Counties. There remain 
ninety-two (92) quadrangles yet to be reported on. The 
greater portion of this territory, however, is in outlying dis- 
tricts. Field work has been completed in the more important, 
or congested districts within these areas. 

With the completion of each individual report, the boun- 
daries of the area mapped are checked with an index map 
furnished by the War Department, insuring accuracy as to 
locations, etc. The reports range in length from 10 to 143 
typewritten pages, legal size, exclusive of military maps, 
bridge sketches and photographs. A copy of each report is 
on file in the office of the State Engineer. 

While information on roads, trails and bridges, and other 
important features is secured by personal surveys, valuable 
assistance is being rendered by the engineering departments 
of the various railroads, telephone and telegraph companies, 
mining companies, power companies, large industrial concerns. 
State and County officials, members of the County Councils 
of Defense and others. 

In view of the comprehensive nature of the work, the mass 
of detail required in accordance with instructions received from 
time to time from the War Department, the cost of the sur- 



38 

vev to date has been extremely li^lit, averac:ing- not more than 
tliirty-five (35c) cents per scjuare mile. A statement of ex- 
penses for the survey from September 24. 1917. to December 
1, 1918, is given below: 

Salaries $4,31979 

Office Supplies 142.07 

Transportation and Field Expenses 396.30 

Blue Prints 24.33 

Total $4,882.49 

MINERALS 

The Minerals Committee of the State Council of De- 
fense was appointed to assist the Government by endeavoring 
to stimulate the production of the so-called ''war minerals" 
in Utah. This committee accepted an offer to make its office 
at the offices of the Utah Chapter of the American Mining 
Congress. The Utah Chapter contributed the services of its 
office force, the postage, etc., and is entitled to the credit of 
having financed the committee. 

The work was begun by announcing the creation and pur- 
poses of the committee through the newspapers and by cir- 
cular. Arrangements were made by which determinations 
of specimens submitted were made without charge by the 
Salt 'Lake City Branch of the United States Bureau of Mines 
and the State School of Mines, at the University of Utah. 

The committee proceeded at once to get in touch with. the 
War Minerals Committee at Washington and with similar 
organizations in other western states. The secretary also 
conferred personally with the War Minerals Committee and 
other representatives of the Government at Washington. 

Several hundred specimens were submitted for examina- 
tion, and the committee gave such advice and information to 
the senders as it had available. Those specimens which were 
identified as war minerals were retained in the office with the 
necessary accompanying data. LItilization by the government 
of the work done by the committee depended on Governmental 
action through the so-called "War Minerals Bill," which did 
not become a law until CJctobcr 5. and was not made opera- 
tive until after the armistice had been signed. The informa- 
tion obtained through the labors of the committee may, how- 
ever, have a future value. 



39 

LABOR. 

Due to the fact that the Federal Government established 
a War Labor Policies Board which deals directly with all 
labor problems and national labor programs, no comprehensive 
general labor program was presented to the State Council by 
the National Council of Defense. However, the Committee 
on Labor co-operated with the State Commissioner of Labor 
in establishing a State Employment Bureau to act as a clear- 
ing house for the labor market, distributing men where they 
were most needed, finding men for the job and a job for 
the men. 

Through the efforts made by the State Council the State 
Employment Office was continued by the Federal Govern- 
ment as a part of the Department of Labor's Employment 
Exchange System, and in addition a new employment office 
was opened in Ogden. 

The Chairman of the State Council's Labor Committee 
was made Federal Director of the United States Public Ser- 
vice Reserve and later was appointed Federal Director of the 
United States Employment Service. The work of these two 
departments is very closely related. 

Early in February, 1918, a campaign to enlist men in the 
working reserve for the various war industries of the country 
was successfully conducted by the State Council and the 
United States Public Service Reserve. ]\Iuch publicity was 
given to the movement and in the course of three weeks 
about three thousand five hundred men were registered for 
service and indicated their willingness to leave the State to 
assist • the Government in the different war plants. This 
number was made up of men from every craft and included 
many unskilled laborers. 

Utah responded to every call made for labor by supply- 
ing niore men than was asked. Many Utah men entered the 
war industries prior to March, 1918, and many went direct to 
the shipyards and munition plants and no record, therefore, 
could be made of these men. 

While recruiting men for work outside the State, the 
United States Employment Service has aimed to protect 
all local industries. The organization of this service has been 
extended to every county in the State, there being three repre- 
sentatives in each county. With the help of this organization 
the Federal Director has been able to furnish the depart- 



40 

ment at \\'asliinq;ton rclial)lc inltjrniation as to labor condi- 
tions, the number of men axailable for war industries, etc. 

HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE. 

Durinii the summer of 1918 there was ori^anized at Wash- 
ington under the direction of the National Council of De- 
Fense a llii^hways Transport Committee with specific duties 
in connection witli highways transportation, looking toward 
the development of regular lines of motor traffic for the pur- 
pose of relieving railroad and terminal congestion. 

In August. 1^18. a l-Vderal Director of Highway Trans- 
iM.rt work for the State of Utah was appointed. In harmony 
with the general policy of the State Council of Defense, the 
Highways Transport Committee was made a regular Commit- 
tee of the State Council of Defense, with.the Federal Director 
as chairman. 

An organization meeting was held during the latter part 
of August at which there was appointed an Fxecutive Com- 
mittee and a I^eld Committee. For the purposes of better 
organizing transportation the State was divided into five 
districts as follows : 

District Number One. 

Cache County Box Elder County 

Weber County Rich County 

Morgan County 

District Number Two. 

Davis County Tooele County 

Wasatch County Summit County 

rtah County Salt Lake County 

Juab County 

District Number Three. 
Millard County Washington County 

Iron County Beaver County 

District Number Four. 
San Pete County Sevier County 

Piute County Garfield County 

Kane County Wavnc County 



4] 

District Number Five. 

Uintah County San Juan County 

Daggett County Duchesne County 

Emery County Carbon County 

Grand County 

Over each District is a Chairman who is also a member 
of the Field Committee. Under the direction of this Chair- 
man the representative of the County Council of Defense, 
who is in charge of transportation, is a member of the District 
Committee representing his county. By this organization the 
General Committee is in direct touch with each County and 
can thereby determine the transportation problems of the 
various parts of the State. 

Meetings were held with the various Committees and 
transportation problems of the State were given serious con- 
sideration during the late summer and fall. It soon developed 
that the efforts of the Highways Transport Committee should 
be concentrated along the line of making available to market 
the products of the interior where regular transportation was 
not to be had. 

To this end considerable effort was put forth toward the 
establishing of regular motor freight service into the Uintah 
Basin from Price. A company was formed for the purpose 
of operating regular daily service to and from the Basin. 
This service began in November, taking over the old Johnson 
Freight Line equipment, and adding new trucks. Investiga- 
tion developed the necessity of considerable amount of road 
work to make possible a winter road between the Basin and 
Price. This matter was referred to the State Road Commission 
and the State Engineer, who immediately took action. 
A member of the Highway Transport Executive Com- 
mittee, who is a resident of the Basin, went over the 
ground with the State Road Engineer and recommended the 
construction of a road from Wellington to Soldier Canyon, a 
distance of thirteen and one-half miles. This was immediately 
acted upon by the State Road Commission and the work com- 
pleted during November. Some additional work is promised 
in the spring which will make the road from the Basin an 
all-year road. 

In October reports came to the Committee that in the 
vicinity of Loa, in Wayne County, some 75 miles from the 



42 

railroad, there were several cars of fat hogs ready for the 
market, but no available transportation. There was no regu- 
lar truck service operating in that section and wagon freight 
was inadvisable on account of the length of time required to 
transport the hogs to the railroad. The matter was taken 
up with the District Chairman at Richfield for the purpose of 
securing some relief. After considerable trouble on account 
of no large trucks being available, the first carload of hogs 
was moved out early in November. Since that time two other 
carloads have been shipped out. The County Agent who 
came in with the first carload reported to the Chairman of 
the Highways Transport Committee that on account of their 
transportation difficulties being solved, there would be mar- 
keted from that section a great number of hogs. This in the 
past had not been possible because of poor transportation 
facilities. The Committee has assurance that regular motor 
freight service will be established between Wayne County 
and the railroad by early spring. 

The statement has recently been made by Herbert 
Hoover that fifty per cent, of the perishable food products 
raised in this countr}^ go to waste because of inadequate 
marketing and transport facilities. 

In this connection the economic value of the Rural Ex- 
press Service, advocated by the Highways Transport Com- 
mittee has been strikingly demonstrated. Instances quoted 
include the service of a single operator in Colorado, w^ho with 
three men covered an express route which made it possible for 
fifty farmers on one highway to discontinue hauling and give 
all their time to production. The Rural Motor Express Ser- 
vice marketed their farm products. 

A few of the arguments which the Highways Transport 
Committee advances in urging the organizing of Rural Ex- 
press Service are that it makes available for use foods now 
produced but wasted because not marketed ; it lightens the 
demand for labor, where labor conditions are most acute, and 
it stimulates increased production. It gives the producer 
the transportation facilities which other business has en- 
joyed for years past. 

The Committee has given a great amount of attention 
to the organization of Return Load Bureaus in order that 
motor trucks may be loaded in both directions. By early 
spring this organization should be perfected to the extent of 



43 

assuring return loads to the regular motor express and freight 
lines which are being established. 

It is anticipated by the Committee that Highways Trans- 
port work will be an important factor during the reconstruction 
period and they are now planning an extension of their or- 
ganization and efforts so as to cover the entire State. On 
account of food problems remaining acute, there will continue 
to be demands upon the production of the State, which pro- 
duction can not be effective without assistance is rendered 
the farmers in the matter of transportation to market. The 
efforts of the Committee will be concentrated on : 

First. Establishing transportation facilities for the in- 
terior sections of the State which will make the products of 
that section available. 

Second. Relieving terminal congestion and encourag- 
ing short hauls by motor traffic instead of railroad. 

Third. Co-operation with the State Road Commission 
and State Engineer to the end that the roads in the various 
parts of the State may be put in such a condition that motor 
transportation is feasible and profitable. 

AMERICANIZATION 

One of the results of the great world war has been the 
inauguration of a National Program of Americanization. In 
the past our efforts in really assimiliating the foreigner in 
our midst have been slight. The evil influences which tend 
to make out of very immigrant a potential enemy of our gov- 
ernment, are constantly at work and frequently in evider.ce. 
Our own apathetic and even antipathetic attitude toward the 
foreigner has resulted in an indifference to the gr'^^at prob- 
lem whose solution demands our earnest attention. Our fail- 
ure to convert our un-Americanized population into true 
Americans has permitted the spreading of anti-American 
propaganda. Our industries have suffered because of the un- 
Americanized state of so many of our foreign born laborers. 
It is startling to note that 1,243,801 alien males from 21 to 
30 years of age were registered under the selective draft 
law, and on the basis of the percentage of the 1910 census. 
over 400,000 of these drafted men were unable to rpeak the 
English language. It has also been estimated that over 
2,500,000 foreign born whites in the United Stales do not 
speak our language. 



44 

One of the <jreatest obstacles to the proper assimilation of 
the immigrant is tlu- inability to speak English. The very 
progress of t)ur alien population is directly dependent upon 
the knowledge ot our language. Contact with American life 
and institutions is likewise dependent upon that knowledge. 
If the immigrant is to be transformed into an American, — an 
American with ideals and standards of living, economic, social 
and moral, which are in agreement with our own. then must 
we make it possible for him to realize the goal for which we 
are working by giving him the educational facilities which 
are necessary for his assimilation and which may have been 
denied him in the country of his birth — we must help him to 
become acquainted with American ideals and standnrds of 
living and imbue him with that love of America which will 
make him. too. feel "America First." 

It is apparent that a state program must includr the 
organization of classes in English and classes in Citizenship 
for those who wish to prepare themselves for Naturalization. 
Americanization, however, is not to be defined merely in 
terms of the immigrant. This is merely the beginning of a 
great movement to bring to every man, woman and child, 
whether native or foreign born, that realization of the ideals 
of American citizenship which will unify our country as never 
before. 

Although in Utah the need of Americanirc-tion may not 
be so apparent as in those states where the immigi ant popu- 
lation is very large, there are certain centers where over 20 per 
cent of the population are foreign born. The most important 
centers of the foreign born population are in Salt Lake, C.ar- 
bon, Utah, Weber, Juab, Cache and Summit Counties. The 
census of 1910 shows that in Utah out of a population of 373,- 
3-51, 63,393 were foreign born whites. The Immigration Bul- 
letins further show that since that time over 12,000 immi- 
grants who gave Utah as their destination were adf»titted into 
the United States. 

In the past, evening classes have been organized in vari- 
ous places in the above named counties and programs have 
been held to welcome in a formal way the new citizen into 
his new duties, responsibilities and liberties. But the cre- 
ation of an Americanization Committee of the State Council 
of Defense with the Superintendent of Public Instruction as 
chairman, was the first step in the inauguration of a state 



45 

program for Americanization. It is hoped that this movement 
will result in the permanent establishment of a state educa- 
tional program in that greater Americanization work of which 
the assimilation of the foreign born is but one phase. 

There are agencies both local and national which have 
already interested themselves in the work of Americanization. 
Much good work has been accomplished and it is the hope of 
the Americanization Committee of the State Council of De- 
fense that they all will heartily co-operate in the correlation 
and co-ordination of all Americanization activities into a uni- 
fied whole throughout the State. 

The plan of state organization which has been approved 
by the State Council of Defense will naturally aiTect at this 
stage in the Americanization movement only those commu- 
nities which are centers of foreign born population. As tb i 
scope of the work broadens, the other districts will likewise be 
asked to co-operate in this nation-wide movement. 

The state program for the Americanization is as follows: 

I PLAX OF ORGANIZATION. 

a. Under the direction of the State Council of Defense, 
the Americanization Committee shall have supervision 
of the Americanization work throughout the State. 

b. In each school district there shall be appointed a Com- 
mittee on Americanization which shall be under the 
direction of the County Council of Defense. It shall 
be composed of the following members : 

1. The Superintendent of Schools as Chairman. 

2. A Representative of the Civic Authorities. 

3. A Representative of Employers of Foreign Labor. 

4. A Representative of Labor Unions. 

5. A Representative of Naturalized Foreigners. 

6. Representatives of Societies and Organizations 
which are interested or concerned in Americaniza- 
tion work. (These members to be appointed at the 
joint recommendation of the local Chairman and 
a representative of the Committee on Americaniz- 
ation of the State Council of Defense and of the 
Naturalization Service. 



46 

II DUTIES. 

a. Americanization Committee of the State Council of 
Defense. 

1. Preparation and promotion of Standards and 
Methods in accordance with the suggestions of the 
Division of Immigrant Education of the Bureau of 
Education and of the Bureau of Naturalization. 

2. Correlation of the Americanization activities 
throughout the State. 

3. Survey of the general conditions, number unable 
to speak English, number of illiterates, school at- 
tendance, educational facilities, state and local 
needs in the Americanization and education of the 
foreigner. 

b. Chairman of the Local Americanization Committee. 

1. Immediate supervision of the educational facilities 
for the foreigner. 

2. Organization of all educational activities of the 
foreigner. 

3. Registration of all pupils. 

c. Local Committee on Americanization. 

1. Active publicity to increase and stimulate attend- 
ance of foreigners at classes. 

2. Survey of the district to procure complete regis- 
tration of the foreigners. 

3. Investigation and Improvement of the Health and 
Sanitation of the foreigner. 

4. Arrangements for appropriate Americanization 
Programs. 

The influenza has afTected the work in Americanization, as 
it has affected other educational work. In spite of it, wherever it 
was possible, local Americanization committees have been 
appointed and the reopening of the schools will mark the 
beginning of an active Campaign in Americanization. The 
Bureau of Naturalization is stimulating attendance at these 
classes in English and American Citizenship by sending let- 
ters to each applicant and each declarant of the past two 
years, urging their attendance. It is the hope of the Ameri- 
canization Committee that every community will take an active 



47 

interest in both the local and State Americanization work. 
Surveys are being made which will help to determine the leg- 
islative needs in Americanization in Utah. The Federal Gov- 
ernment is even now preparing to meet in a National way, the 
problem of Americanization. The Americanization Commit- 
tee looks to each loyal American in the State of Utah to fur- 
ther in every way possible this great National Movement in 
Americanization. 

BOYS' WORKING RESERVE 

The Boys' Working Reserve in Utah, under direction of 
the U. S. Department of Labor, was organized by the State 
Council of Defense to assist in relieving the shortage of labor 
on farms due to the large number of young men entering 
the army, also to enable farmers to increase their acreage 
in harmony with the campaign instituted by the government 
for increased production. 

During the summer of 1917, five hundred twenty-eight ci*"y 
boys were placed in camps on farms, thinning beets. These 
camps were equipped with sleeping tents, commissary 
wagons and mess tents and were located in Box Elder and 
Millard Counties. In addition, there were independent 
camps, incidentally connected with the state organization, 
organized in Provo and Ogden. * 

Taking into consideration the fact, that this first year 
was more or less experimental in nature : that a new wav 
had to be blazed in unknown fields of labor : that the farm- 
ers were naturally skeptical of the feasibility of city boys 
suddenly becoming farmers: that suitable men to oversee 
camps were not always available ; the management was pleased 
beyond expectation with the outcome. Through the patriotic 
efforts of the boys, more than 1000 acres of beets were thinned. 
Much of the success of the summer's work was due to the 
practical, common sense methods of the Federal State Di- 
rector. 

In preparation for the second year of activity a very 
complete enrollment of the boys of the State was made, not 
only of those who were 16 years of age and older, but also of 
those from 12 to 16 years in a junior organization. As ^he 
federal government does not recognize boys under 16 years of 
age, the junior organization was under state supervision. To 
encourage these young lads to "do their bit" for the country, 



48 

the State Conmiittee furnished a button representing the state 
seal, around the ed^e of which are the words. "Junior Boys' 
Working- Reserve, I'tah." 'Ihese buttons are to be awixled 
January 1 to all Junior Hoys who have a credit of havin-^^ 
worked at least six weeks, of six days to the week, and e^r^dit 
hours to the da v. 

AlthouLili the ors^anization was more complete and better 
prepared for service, there was less demand for boys during 
the summer of V)\S, than the previous summer due to the in- 
flux of Mexican labor. In (3ctober, however, when the apple 
pickini;-. potato and beet digging season was at its height 
there was a great demand for help. The schools were closed 
because of the influenza epidemic. The State Board of Health 
gave permission to the State Director to enroll and place 
boys on farms under careful supervision. Camps were im- 
mediately organized at Spanish Fork, Taylorsville, Syracuse, 
Logan and Whitney. The boys for these camps were all 
recruited in Salt Lake City. All the towns in the State fur- 
nished boy labor in their immediate vicinity, but the data is 
not available as to the numbers and results of their work. 
Everywhere the call for help was responded to in a most 
admirable spirit, and the crop was harvested without loss. 



SPEAKERS' BUREAU AND FOUR-MINUTE MEN 

The Speakers' Bureau, including the Division of Four- 
Minute Men, has been from the very beginning an important 
part of the organization of the State Council of Defense. It 
has held itself in readiness to co-operate with the W'ashing- 
ton Bureau in carrying information to the people on the vari- 
ous war emergency topics and it has besides assisted in meet- 
ing the demands for publicity of each of the campaigns and 
drives conducted by the various war organizations in the 
state. Without doubt a goodly part of the fine record which 
Utah has made in the various undertakings in which she has 
been called upon to j^articipate has been due to the gen- 
erosity and patriotism and willing ability of the fine corps 
of speakers who have held themselves during the period of 
the war subject to the call of the Speakers' Bureau. 

The work of the Speakers' Bureau has consisted oi plac- 
ing either through its own organization or by co-operation 
with other organizations of the State, speakers of national 



49 

and international reputation who have been on tour through 
the country, of making available at meetings especially called 
in Salt Lake City and in other parts of the State local speakers 
of unusual influence, and of regularly scheduling for the 
theatres, picture show houses, and churches of the state 
the Four-Minute Men, who have night after night during the 
period of the war carried the official message of the Gov- 
ernment and of the State Council of Defense to the audiences 
who assemble at these places of amusement and of worship. 



INDUSTRIAL SURVEY 

On account of the very complete industrial survey made 
by the Navab Consulting Board in 1916, no call has been made 
by the Federal Government for additional information along 
this line, although the Committee on Industrial Survey is in 
possession of more recent information concerning the indus- 
trial possibilities of Utah, both as to raw^ materials and 
manufacturing facilities. 



CO-ORDINATION OF SOCIETIES 

It seems that most all organizations and societies in the 
State assumed that the State Council of Defense was to take 
the initiative in all war work activities and placed them- 
selves in readiness to work in harmony and co-operate with the 
various State Council committees. This being the case, the 
Committee on Co-ordination of Societies has had practically 
nothing to do, as there has been but little competition, dupli- 
cation of effort or misdirected energy along this line. 



SURVEY OF MAN POWER 

Very little work has been referred to the Committee on 
Survey of Man Power. Matters that would have normally 
been referred to this committee have adjusted themselves. In 
anticipation of a possible acute labor shortage, an Emergency 
Volunteer Industrial Army was organized from men in 
stores, banks and other places of business, but there was no 
call for these men. 



562-4 



50 

SANITATION AND MEDICINE 

The Committee on Sanitation and Medicine has been ac- 
tive in enrolling physicians and surgeons for war service 
and has submitted to The Surgeon General a full rei)()rt of all 
hospitals of the State. It has investigated the means em- 
ployed in Europe for restoring cripples to their full useful- 
ness. The committee made a public appeal that nurses be 
not withdrawn from hospitals for use in private families ex- 
cept in cases of emergency, as the need for nurses was so 
great that the numbers needed by the Government could not 
be supplied. The committee has endeavored to raise the 
standards of nursing throughout the State, to stimulate in- 
struction along the lines of personal hygiene, to forward the 
Child Welfare movement, to provide for the re-education of 
men crippled in the war, and to promote public health meas- 
ures. 

MILITARY AFFAIRS. 

The Committee on Military Affairs, ably assisted by a 
Recruiting Commission appointed from non-members of the 
State Council, conducted the work of bringing the National 
Guard of Utah up to full strength. They also assisted in re- 
cruiting men for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The 
record made by Utah in supply men for all these branches of 
service is one of which every citizen in the State should 
be proud. The problem of home defense was assigned to this 
committee but this was relatively a simple matter in view of 
the fact that Utah possesses no large alien population and 
that a brigade post of the United States Army was stationed 
at Salt Lake City. 

WAR HISTORY WORK 

At the request of Governor Bamberger the State Council of 
Defense has undertaken the task of compiling a War History 
of the state. It was suggested by the Governor that there 
should be comj)iled a complete record of all persons in service 
from the state, together with official information of the ac- 
tivities of the various organizations which have participated 
in the war work of the State. 

To this end the State Council has perfected an organiza- 
tion which extends to every community of the state. Early in 



51 

the work it became evident that an accurate and complete 
list of persons in service could be obtained only by a canvas 
of the communities. Many men had entered service while out 
of the State and there was no available record of their serv- 
ice. The canvas will furnish information as to the name and 
address of all persons in service and the name and address of 
the nearest of kin. 

Upon receiving the above information the State Office will 
send to the nearest of kin or to the soldier if discharged, a 
questionnaire which is intended to be a basis for a biography. 
It is intended that a brief biography of every person, together 
with photographs and personal experiences shall be made 
available for a permanent record of the State. There will 
also be a supplementary list of men entering the shipyards 
and munition factories. It is planned also to have a perma- 
nent record made of the War activities of the State in ordei 
that there may be officially preserved a record of the wonder- 
ful achievements made by the State during the present war. 
It is believed that this material can be easily collected at this 
time, a task which will be impossible if delayed. 



RECONSTRUCTION 

The various activities of the State Council have succeeded 
through the patriotic response of the citizens and workers 
of the State. Responsibility, however, has not ended. The 
problems of reconstruction are as serious and demand as 
much attention as the war problems. Just at present the State 
is faced with the task of returning to normal pursuits the sol- 
diers, sailors and munition workers who are being demobilized 
at the various camps and cantonments. 

It is the manifest duty of the State to provide these re- 
turning men and women with an opportunity equal to the 
one they gave up when they entered the service. The State 
Council of Defense has been asked by the Governor to as- 
sume this problem in the State of Utah. 

There are two definite phases to the question of placing 
these persons back in industrial pursuits. First, the creation 
of public work. All reports and surveys indicate that there 
are more men returning to the various counties than there 
are positions to be filled. This imposes upon the State an 



obli^aliuii (»f crcatini; work in order tliat these men may l)e 
given an opportunity to support themselves and dependents. 
Second, the other i)hase of the problem has to do with the 
absorbing into permanent industries of the State large numbers 
of men who are returning. 

Definite plans have been worked out along this line, 
whereby it is hoped that the great majority of men returning 
to the state will be absorved into the permanent peace indus- 
tries. 

The problem of industrial employment for returning sol- 
diers is one of the most serious that the State has ever faced 
and its solution is primarily dependent upon the attitude of 
the employers of the State toward this labor, and toward 
business extension. 

The State Council will undoubtedly be asked to assume 
leadership in many other of the problems of construction and 
readjustment which will face the State during the coming 
months. 

Increased food production must be encouraged. The 
Americanization of foreigners must go on to completion. 
Other Liberty Loans will be called and must be organized 
by the State Council. The Civic and Economic rights of the 
returning soldiers must be guarded during the period of re- 
adjustment until they are established permanently in the in- 
dustrial persuits. The labor situation may or may not be- 
come serious, depending upon the way the various problems 
of reconstruction are handled. 



53 

EXPENSE. 

Considering the amount of work covered by the State 
Council of Defense, the expenses incurred have been remark- 
ably small. The expense of the State Council of Defense is 
among the lov^est of the nation. This was made possible by 
the co-operation of state agencies and the patriotic services 
of the citizens of the State. The following is a statement of 
expenditures to December 1, 1918: 

Expenditures Receipts Net Expense 

Boys' Working Reserve_$ 401.45 $ 401.45 

Child Welfare 756.78 756.78 

Commercial Economy __ 3,600.00 3,600.00 
Food Supply and Conser- 
vation 7Z,ZZA.77 % 44,616.60 § 

Film Committee 3,106.50 3,100.00 6.50 

Industrial Survev 46.25 46.25 

Liberty Loans 1 15,276.05 10,846.95 4,429.10 

Office Expense 8.091.55 *8,091.55 

Meetings and Entertain- 
ment ^ 1,047.24 1,047.24 

Military Survey 5,233.00 5,233.00 

Traveling Expenses 342.25 342.25 

War Savings 1,500.00 1,500.00 

War History 225.92 225.92 

Women's Committee ___ 983.39 983.39 

Loans from State Land 

Board 75,000.00 

Balance Xov. 30, 1918___ 19,618.40 



$133,563.55 $133,563.55 $ 26,663.43 

§Due the State Council from farmers on loans secured by 
crop mortgages which will be paid at harvesting time 
$28,718.17. 

^Includes $627.40 equipment on hand. 



54 

STATEMENT SOLDIERS' WELFARE FUND AND 
UNITED WAR WORK 

January. 1919. 

Soldiers' Welfare Fund — Receipts and Disbursements. 
Receipts — 

Cash $103,538.21 

Disbursements — 

State Council of Defense $ 3,750.00 

Soldiers' Recreation (\V. C. C. S.) 6,800.00 

Y. M. C. A 70,254.60 

Y. W. C. A 10,000.00 

Expenses 4,250.93 95.055.53 



Cash on hand $10,482.68 

United War Work — Receipts and Disbursements. 

Receipts — 

Cash ^237,725.52 

Bonds, United War Work $77,300.00 

*Bonds, Soldiers' Welfare Fund 50.00 77,350.00 



$315,075.52 
Disbursements — 

Soldiers' Recreation (W. C. C. S.) 2.274.67 

*Paid Soldiers' Welfare Bond 50.00 

Forwarded to New York — 

Cash $16,030.00 

Bonds 77.350.00 93.380.00 

Expenses 9,324.90 105.029.57/ 

Cash on hand $210,045.95 

*Note — .Above is given the balance sheet of tlic Soldiers' Welfare 
Fund and the United War Work Campaign. This statement is com- 
plete as the accounts appear on our books January 30th. Remittances 
from these funds arc made under the direction of the State of Utah 
Council of Defense when called for by national iieadquarters. The 
accounts are audited monthly and a complete summary will he made 
when the funds have been liquidated. 



ROSTER 

of 

State and County 
Committees 



56 

STATE OF UTAH COUNCIL OF DEFENSE 

Armstrong, W. W National Copper Bank, Salt Lake 

t Bamberger, Clarence Salt Lake 

Bamberger. Miss Elsa 623 E. First South, Salt Lake 

Bichsel. M rs. Edward Ogden 

Brewer. A. L Ogden 

Browning, T. S ^Ogdcn 

Collett. R. S Roosevelt 

Collier. Mrs. R. E. L 416 S. Tenth East, Salt Lake 

Critchlow. Mrs. E. B 430 S. Seventh East, Salt Lake 

Cutler. Thos. R Vermont Bldg., Salt Lake 

Dee, Mrs. Thos. D Ogden 

Dern. George H 515 Dooly Bldg., Salt Lake 

*Ebaugh. W. C --- Ohio 

Eccles. L. R Ogden 

Farnsworth. L. H Walker Bros., Bankers, Salt Lake 

Funk. J. W - Richmond 

Glass, Rt. Rev. J. S Cathedral Residence, Salt Lake 

Grant, Hebcr J 22 South Main Street. Salt Lake 

*Groesbeck, C. E New York 

Harkness, R. B 85 First Avenue. Salt Lake 

Hey wood. Abbott R Ogden 

Inch. S. R Utah Power & Light Co., Salt Lake 

Jensen. W. F Mutual Creamery Co.. Salt Lake 

Jenson, J. Y Ephraim 

Joyce, Dr. R. S Ogden 

Kearns, Mrs. Thos 603 E. South Temple. Salt Lake 

Knight, Mrs. J. Wm Provo 

Lamont. J. H 415 Tenth East. Salt Lake 

Lawry. G. V Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific. Salt Lake 

Leary. W. H Newhousc Bldg.. Salt Lake 

Lund. H. M. H State Capitol, Salt Lake 

Moran. P. J Felt Bldg.. Salt Lake 

Morris, Mrs. F. Eugene 1053 Lake Street, Salt Lake 

McKay, A. N Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake 

Nibley.'c. W Bishop's Bldg.. Salt Lake 

Odell Geo. T Consolidated Wagon & Machine Co., Salt Lake 

Orem. W. C Electric Ry. Bldg.. Salt Lake 

Peterson, Dr. E. G Agricultural College, Logan 

Redman, B. F 136 South Fourth West Street, Salt Lake 

Rees, A. C Salt Lake 

Reynolds, F. W Salt Lake 

Richards, C. C 302 Felt Bldg., Salt Lake 

Richards. Mrs. F. S 175 A Street. Salt Lake 

Richmond, F. C 117 W. Second South Street. Salt Lake 

fSicgel. B. U Salt Lake 

Stewart. C. B 802 Mclntyre Bldg., Salt Lake 

Sutton. W. D Park City 

Taylor. T. N Provo 

Thurman. Arch M State Capitol. Salt Lake 

Wallace W. R 67 West First South Street, Salt Lake 

Wattis, W. L ....Ogden 

Whitley, C. W McCornick Bldg., Salt Lake 

Whitney. H. G Deseret News Bldg.. Salt Lake 

WidtsocDr. J. A University of Utah. Salt Lake 

Williams, Mrs. W. N 1280 E. South Temple. Salt Lake 

Worthington, Mrs. Union 301 Second Ave.. Salt Lake 

fYoung. Brig. Gen. R. W * Salt Lake 



tResigned. Absent on active military service. 
♦Resigned. Absent from the State. 



0/ 

Officers: 

Governor Simon Bamberger 

L. H. Farnsworth Chairman 

W. R. Wallace Vice-Chairman 

C. C. Richards Vice-Chairman 

T. N. Taylor Vice-Chairman 

*Arch M. Thurman -. Secretary 

J. Edward Taylor Assistant Secretary 

Eli F. Taylor Field Secretary 

COMMITTEES 

Executive : 

L. H. Farnsworth Chairman 

Arch M. Thurman - - Secretary 

\V. \V. Armstrong, Miss Elsa Bamberger, Mrs. Edward Bichsel, T. S. 

Browning, Heber T. Grant, W. F. Jensen, A. X. McKa\-, E. G. 

Peterson, B. F. Redman, F. C. Richmond, T. X. Tavlor, W. R. 

Wallace. W. L. Wattis, Mrs. W. X. Williams. 

Finance: 

Heber J. Grant Chairman 

W. W. Armstrong, W. R. Wallace, W. C. Orem, W. L. Wattis, C. W. 
Whitley, George H. Dern. 

Publicity : 

A. N. McKay Chairman 

W. H. Leary, W. R. Wallace, T. S. Browning, F. W. Reynolds. 

Speakers' Bureau: 

F. W. Reynolds Chairman 

Ross Beason Vice-Chairman 

Delbert Draper. 

Four Minute Men: 

F. W. Reynolds Chairman 

Ross Beason Vice-Chairman 

Delbert Draper. 

Films: 

F. C. Richmond Chairman 

Frank Xewman, Geo. E. Carpenter. Harry Anderson, Louis Marcus, 

G. T. Smith. 

Legal: 

C. C. Richards Chairman 

W. H. Leary. R. B. Harkness. 

War Emergency Legislation: 

Jos. L. Rawlins Chairman 

W. H. Leary, Stephen R. Richards, Frank E. Holman, Carl Badger, 
Chas. R. Hollingsworth. Jacob Coleman. 

Co-ordination of Societies: 

Geo. T. Odell Chairman 

H. G. Whitney. E. G. Peterson. 

*W. C. Ebaugh secretary from April. 1917, to August. 1918. Arch 
M. Thurman secretary since August 10, 1918. 



58 

Sanitation and Medicine: 

Dr. R. S. Joyce Chairman 

Arch M. Thurman. 

Food Supply and Conservation: 

?■ V -f^^^f'^'J^-ir o Cliairman 

1. N. Taylor, t. B. Stewart. J. A. Widtsoe, H. G. Whitney Geo T 
Odell, B. F. Redman, W. R. Wallace. W. D. Sutton. 

Industrial Survey: 

'r- R- Cutler Chairman 

C. W. Nibley, A. C. Rees. 

Labor: 

P. J. Moran ..^..^. Chairman 

T. R. Cutler, J. H. Lamont, S. R. Inch. 

Military Affairs: 

"U;^^u^- ^^""'^•WV.Wr:-; Chairman 

VV. H. Leary. C. W . Whitley, A. L. Brewer, Major Fred Jorgensen. 

State Protection: 

F. C. Richniond Chairman 

B. h. Redman. R. S. Colktt, A. R. Hcywood, J. W. Funk. 

TRANSPORTATION: 

S. R. inch.. Chairman 

W. C. Orem, C. W. Nibley, L. R. Eccles. 

Local Councils of Defense: 

W. W. Armstrong .... Chairman 

Rt. Rev. J. S. Glass, T. X. Taylor. 

Survey of Man Power: 

C. B. Stewart Chairman 

G. V. Lawry, J. Y. Jenson. 

Seeds: 

B. F. Redman Chairman 

W. R. Wallace. 

Live Stock: 

C. B. Stewart Chairman 

Geo. T. Odell, J. Edward Taylor. 

Non-War Construction: 

I J, M^'Jf^^ Chairman 

Arch M. Thurman Secretary 

Otto E. Ashbridge, Edward E. Jenkins, P. L. Doran, R. E. Currie 

Research and Invention: 

Guy Sterling Chairman 

hrank L. West, William D. Boner. 

Soldiers' and Sailors' Advisory: 
R. B. Harkness rhn.Vr^o^ 

H. J. Grant. W. R. Waljacc. A. \. McKay. C. W. Whitley, B. F. 

Redman. 



59 

Employment Bureau: 

Geo. S. Auerbach Chairman 

Nephi L. Morris, Major Harold P. Fabian, Otto E. Ashbridge, 
Arch M. Thurman. 

Women's Work: 

Mrs. W. N. Williams Chairman 

Miss Elsa Bamberger, Mrs. Edw. Bichsel, Mrs. R. E. L. Collier, 
Mrs. E. B. Critchlow, Mrs. Thos. D. Dee, Mrs. Thos. Kearns, 
Mrs. J. Wm. Knight, Mrs. F. Eugene Morris, Mrs. F. S. Richards, 
Mrs. Union Worthington. 

Chairmen of Women's Departments: 

Registration Mrs. R. E. L. Collier 

Food Administration Miss Gertrude McCheyne 

Food Conservation and Home Economics Mrs. Janet A. Hyde 

Home and Foreign Relief (Red Cross) Miss Kate Williams 

Maintenance of Existing Social Service Agencies 

Mrs. Amy B. Lyman 

Health and Recreation Miss Charlotte Stewart 

Liberty Loan Mrs. W. Mont Ferry 

Education Mrs. John A. Wid-tsoe 

Child Welfare Miss May Anderson 

Publicity Mrs. R. W. Spangler 

Women in Industry Mrs. F. Eugene Morris 

Child Welfare: 

Dr. E. G. Gow^ans Chairman 

Miss May Anderson Secretary 

Dr. T. B. Beatty, Dr. R. S. Joyce, Mrs. W. N. Williams, Dr. R. S. Olsen, 
John T. Caine IIL, Miss Claire Haynes, Dr. Walter T. Hasler, 
Mrs. G. M. Bacon, Miss Kate Williams, W. M. Knerr, Dr. Jane 
W. Skolfield, Arch M. Thurman. 

Commercial Economy Board: 

W, F. Jensen Chairman 

B. F. Redman, T. N. Taylor. 
Deputy Commissioners: 

E. C. Schmidt 326 Capitol Bldg., Salt Lake 

W. E, Zuppann Ogden 

Minerals : 

Geo. H. Dern — .—.....— Chairman 

A. G. Mackenzie Secretary, Boston Bldg., Salt Lake 

Eugene Gayford, Victor C. Heikes, Edw. R. Zalinski. 

Military Survey: 

G. F. McGonagle State Engineer 

E. C. Penrose .—.... .........— Special Agent 

T. F. Jackson, Bess O'Melveny, C. M. Goodliffe. 

Americanization : 

E. G. Gowans Chairman 

Tillman D. Johnson, Harold M. Stephens, Leslie M. Eraser, Geo. 

Emory Fellows, C. E. Allen, G. V. Lawry, Mrs. W. X. Williams, 

Mrs. Leah A. Widtsoe, D. R. Harriman. 



no 

HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE: 

Executive Committee: 

1 . 11. Manderheld Chairman 

Arch M. Thurman Secretary 

l*>ank Botterill, C. E. Davis, R. J. Evans, R. S. Collett, Joshua 
Greenwood. O. J. Grinies, G. P. McGonagle, H. J. Doolittlf. 

Field Committee: 

Jos. M. Maiuk'i lichl Chairman 

Arch M. Thurman Secretary 

H. M. Rowe, S. R. Inch, Geo. Jefferson, R. D. Young, Robert McKune. 

CENTRAL LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE 

The First and Second Liberty Loan drives were handled under 
Clarence Bamberger as Chairman, J. David Larson as Executive Sec- 
retary, 

The Third and Fourth Liberty Loans were handled under Heber 
J. Grant as Chairman, J. David Larson as State Campaign Manager, 

The Executive Committee consisted of the following: 

Heber J. Grant Chairman, State Central Committee 

J, David Larson State Campaign iManager 

W. R. Putnam State Publicity Director 

J, S. Critchlow State Director Speakers' Bureau 

C, W, Whitley Member State Central Committee 

W, W. Armstrong Member State Central Committee 

W, R. Wallace Member State Central Committee 

F. C, Richmond Member State Central Committee 

L. H. Farnsworth Member State Central Committee 

George Albert Smith Member State Central Committee 

James Pingree Member State Central Committee, Ogden 

W. H, Wattis Member State Central Committee, Ogden 

M. S. Browning Member State Central Committee, Ogden 

Mrs, W. Mont F'erry Chairman Woman's Committee 

Mrs, W, F, Adams Secretary Woman's Committee 

F. S, Murphy Salt Lake City Chairman 2nd Liberty Loan 

Lester D, Freed.. ..Salt Lake City Chairman 3rd and 4th Liberty Loans 

COMMISSION ON TRAINING CAMP ACTIVITIES 

War Camp Community Service: 

C. B, Hawley _ Chairman 

F. L. Gardner ....Vice-Chair man 

A. D. McMullen Treasurer 

Roy Rugg , Secretary 

L, H. Farnsworth ....Finance 

J. David Larson Finance 

Central Committee, Soldiers' Welfare Fund: 

David A. Smith Chairman 

E. O. Howard Treasurer 

J. David Larson Executive Secretary 

W. F. Jensen, Leon Sweet, Harold B. Lamb, Frank B, Cook, L. C. 

Miller, Mrs, E. B, Critchlow, Miss Elsa Bamberger, Mrs, W. 

Mont Fcrrv. Mrs, J, C, Hanchett, Mrs. Ruth May Fox, 



61 

Central Committee, United War Work Fund: 

Heber J. Grant Chairman 

J. David Larson State Campaign Director 

L. H. Farnsworth, Bishop Joseph S. Glass, E. O. Howard, W. H. 

Wattis, Leon Sweet, ^Irs. A. J. Gorham, W. R. Wallace, C. B. 

"Hawley, ^Lijor P. Morton. 

U S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION FOR UTAH 

Second Floor Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City. 

W. W. Armstrong Federal Food Administrator 

John K. Hardy Executive Secretary 

Gilbert W. Williams Assistant Executive Secretary 

Mrs. F. C. Schramm Director of Public Information 

P. M. Macgregor Regulations and Licenses 

J. Edward Taylor Chief, Production Division 

COUNTY FOOD ADMINISTRATORS 

Beaver R. H. Strickland Beaver 

Box Elder Wynn L. Eddy Brigham City 

Cache E. R. Owen Logan 

Carbon A. W. Horsley Price 

Davis : H. H. Blood Kaysville 

Daggett M. N. Larsen .....Manila 

Duchesne Paul Billings Duchesne 

Emery Henry Thompson Ferron 

Grand ....D. E. Baldwin Moab 

Garfield James Houston .• '. Panguitch 

Iron Wilford Day Parowan 

Juab W. G. Orme Nephi 

Kane W. W. Seegmiller Kanab 

Millard D. F. Peterson .- Delta 

Morgan Daniel Heiner Morgan 

Weber W. H. Shearman Ogden 

Piute Thomas Black Marysvale 

Rich S. R. South Randolph 

Sevier R. D. Young Richfield 

Summit L. P. McGary Park City 

Sanpete ^.L. R. Anderson Manti 

San Juan L. H. Redd Blanding 

Salt Lake City Mrs. Rose Homer Widtsoe 382 Wall St. 

Salt Lake County.Mrs. Leonora T. Harrington 1975 S. 7th East 

Tooele u C. A. Orme Tooele 

Uintah Don B. Colton Vernal 

Utah J. W. Robinson Prove 

Wasatch J. R. Murdock Heber 

Washington E. H. Snow St. George 

Wayne W. S. McCIellan Loa 

U. S. FUEL ADMINISTRATION FOR UTAH 

W. W. Armstrong Federal Fuel Administrator 

L. M. Bailey Executive Secretary 

Mrs. F. C. Schramm Publicity Director 

Msis Lillian Connelly Assistant Publicity Director 

STATE ADVISORY— George H. Dern Dooly Bldg., Wasatch 629 

SALT LAKE CITY— Church P. Castle....377 S. 2nd West, Was. 3115 



(V2 

COUNTY FUEL ADMINISTRATORS 

Beaver Cliesley liarloii Milford 

Box Elder ^^R. L. Fishburn Brigham City 

Cache „ Westoiv \'ernon ^ Logan 

Carbon Xeil Madsen Price 

Davi:> Leo J. Muir — Bountiful 

Emery .^ ienry Thompson Ferron 

Garheld „Mrs. C. Garhart Panguitch 

Grand ^'•\ W. Strong _ Moab 

Iron ^ ^Edmund H. Ryan Cedar City 

Juab _G. ^L \\ hitmore Nephi 

Kane ^lohn R. Findlay Kanab 

Millard ^Mahonri M. Steel Delta 

Morgan _C. M. Croft Morgan 

Piute ^Benjamin Cameron, Jr Circleville 

Rich ^John Kennedy Randolph 

Salt Lake 3am Lindsay Murray 

San Juan ^O. W. McConkie Monticello 

Sanpete .Halbert S. Kerr Manti 

Sevier ^Martin C. Christensen Richfield 

Summit .Henry Welch Park City 

Tooele _James B. Hickman _ Tooele 

L'mtah _Don B. Colton Vernal 

^'tah ^Walter P. Whitehead Provo 

Wasatch H. W. Harvey Heber City 

Washington _David Gourley St. George 

VVayne ...„ .Sylvester C. Williams Teasdale 

Weber _ ....Dr. F. .M. Conroy Ogden 

NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE FOR UTAH 

Geo. T. Odell State Director 

James W. Collins State Chairman 

E. V. Smith Vice State Chairman 

W. R. Putnam Director of Publicity 

John S. Critchlow Publicity by Speakers 

U. S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE 

P. J. Moran _ Chairman 

Jo?. Quinney, C. J. Humphri?, W. M. Knerr, J. Wm. Knight. 

UNITED STATES BOYS' WORKING RESERVE 

J. Challen Smith Acting State Director 

J. Edward Taylor. F. W. Kirkham, Oscar .\. Kirkham, John T. Caine 
III, .\. L. Mathews, J. Morrell George, G. J. Reeves. 

COUNTY COUNCILS OF DEFENSE 
Beaver County 

J. F. Tolton, Chairman, Finance Beaver 

D. I. Frazer, Secretary-Treasurer, Publicity Beaver 

Russel E. Parsons, Legal Beaver 

Dr. ]o^. T. McGregor, Sanitation and Medicine Beaver 

Henry Frazer. | f^^^ ,^"PJ*'>' '"^"^ Conservation Beaver 

-^ ' I Industrial Survey Beaver 

William Hurst, Labor Beaver 

R. H. Strickland. \'ice-Chairman, Military Affairs Beaver 

J. H. Barton. State Protection Beaver 



63 

George Jefferson. Transportation _ Milford 

H. T. Hanks, Survey of Man Power :... Milford 

W. J. Burns - ....Milford 

George Marshall Minersville 

Mrs. Margaret Murdock, Women's Work Beaver 



Box Elder County 

John D. Peters, Finance Brigham City 

Victor E. Madsen, Publicity .....Brigham City 

Wm. J. Lowe, Secretary, Legal Brigham City 

D. W. Henderson, Sanitation and Medicine „Brigham City 

John P. Holmgren, Food Supply and Conservation Tremonton 

Moroni Mortensen, Industrial Survey Bear River 

C. G. .\dney. Labor Corinne 

Wynn L. Eddy. Chairman. Militar>^ .\ffair5 Brigham City 

R. L. Fishburn. State Protection Brigham City 

David O. Stohl. Transportation Brigham City 

David Holmgren. Survey of Man Power — . Tremonton 

Annie W. Littlewood, Women's Work Brigham City 



Cache County 

J. W. Funk. Chairman, Finance Richmond 

Chas. England, Publicity Logan 

Roy D. Thatcher. Secretary-. Legal Logan 

D. C. Budge. Sanitation and Medicine Logan 

Evan R. Owen. Food Supply and Conservation Logan 

Weston Vernon, Industrial Survey Logan 

Geo. Y. Smith, Labor „ „ Smithrield 

W. O. -Adams. Military -Affairs Logan 

Hayrum Hayball. State Protection Logan 

H. A. Pederson. Transportation Logan 

Jos. E. Cardon, Survey of Man Power Logan 

Mrs. G. R. Hill. Women's Work Logan 



Carbon County 

Carl R. Marcusson, Finance Price 

R. W. Crockett. Secretary, Publicity Price 

F. E. Woods, Legal „ Price 

A. D. Sutton. Sanitation and Medicine Price 

A. Z. Marshall, Food Supply and Conservation Wellington 

A. W. Horsley, Chairman, Industrial Survey Price 

Frank Bennett, Labor Storrs 

Albert Bryner, Military Affairs Price 

Carlos Gunderson. State Protection Price 

Robert McKune. Transportation Price 

Xeil Madsen, Survey of Man Power Scofield 

Miss Margaret Horsley. Women'> Work Price 



Davis County 

John W. Thornley, Finance Kaysville 

W. P. Epperson, Publicity Kaysville 

L. I. La>-ton. Secretary. Legal Layton 

Dr. B. L. Kessler. Sanitation and Medicine Bountiful 

H. H. Blood, Food Supply and Conservation Kaysville 



r.4 

Henry W. Stable, Industrial Survey Bountiful 

Xeplii Palmer, Labor Farmington 

J. G. M. Barnes, Military Affairs Kaysville 

Stearns Hatcb, State Protection Woods Cross 

I.. J. Muir, Transi)ortation Bountiful 

E. P. Kllison, Cbairniaii, Survey of Man Power Layton 

Mrs. J. VV. Tbornley, Women's Work Kaysville 

Duchesne County 

Homer P. Kdwards, Secretary, b^inancc Roosevelt 

Fred L. Watrus, Publicity '. Duchesne 

C. L. Ashton, Legal Roosevelt 

R. S. Collett, Food Supply and Conservation Roosevelt 

M. P. Pope, Vice-Chairman, Industrial Survey Duchesne 

Thos. Rhodes, Labor Duchesne 

R. M. Pope, Military Affairs Duchesne 

Wm. O'Neil, State Protection Roosevelt 

P'lora E. Collett, Treasurer, Women's Work Roosevelt 

Emery County 

Peter Neilson, Finance Huntington 

David S. Williams, Secretary, Publicity Castledale 

R. A. Howard, Legal Castledale 

Dr. Bruce Easley, Sanitation and Medicine Ferron 

H. A. Nelson, Food Supply and Conservation Ferron 

Niels J. Christensen, Industrial Survey Ferron 

G. E. Anderson, Lal)or Emery 

Henry Thompson, Chairman, Military Affairs Ferron 

Wm. T. Reid, State Protection Orangeville 

Nephi L. Williams, Transportation Castledale 

Wm. J. Killpack, Survey of Man Power Ferron 

Mrs. Louisa Oveson, Women's Work ;.... Castledale 

Garfield County 

Joseph E. Heywood, Chairman, Finance Panguitch 

Fred E. Eldredge, Secretary, Publicity Panguitch 

Susie Johnson, Legal 

Mrs. Geneva Carhart, Sanitation and Medicine Panguitch 

James Houston, Vice-Chairman, Food Suj)ply and Conservation 

Panguitch 

Quince K. Kimball, Industrial Survey _ Winder 

Thomas Haycock, Labor .'. Panguitch 

John King. Military Affairs Escalante 

G. J. Goulding, State Protection Panguitch 

Maurice Cope, Transi)ortation Tropic 

John Black, Survey of Man Power Escalante 

Vida Prince, Women's Work Panguitch 

Grand County 

W. R. McConkie, Finance Moab 

Lorin L. Taylor, Treasurer, Publicity Moab 

C. A. Robertson, Vice-Chairman, Legal Moab 

Dr. J. W. Williams, Sanitation and Medicine Moab 



65 

F. B. Hammond, Food Supply and Conservation Moab 

F. W. Strong, Secretary, Industrial Survey Moab 

J. G. McBride. Labor _ — Cisco 

W. J. Bliss, Military Affairs _ „Cisco 

J. P. Miller, Chairman, State Protection „.Moab 

H. S. Rutledge. Transportation Moab 

D. M. Cooper, Survey of Man Power _Moab 

Mrs. Knox Patterson, Women's Work Moab 



Iron County 

J. Clayton Mitchell. Secretary, Finance Parowan 

Alex. H. Rollo, Publicity .-.„ Parowan 

E. H. Ryan, Legal „ _ Cedar 

S. J. Foster, Sanitation and Medicine —.Cedar 

John L'. Webster. Food Supply and Conservation Cedar 

Roj' F. Homer, Industrial Survey Cedar 

H. J. Doolittle, Labor _ ....-—— —-Lund 

Wilford Day, Chairman Military AflFairs - Parowan 

Morgan Richards, State Protection Parowan 

James C. Robinson, Jr., Transportation Parowan 

Maeser Dallej-, Survey of Man Power _Cedar 

Allie Knell, Women's Work „ Cedar 



Juab County 

G. M. Whitmore, Finance Nephi 

Dennis Wood, Publicitv - Nephi 

T. H. Burton. Legal Nephi 

G. W. Lunt, Sanitation and Medicine Nephi 

J. W. Bowd, Food Supply and Conservation Nephi 

J. W. Paxman, Industrial Survey „.....*. Nephi 

Walter Fitch, Labor .— _ Eureka 

Chas. Zabriski, Military Affairs - Eureka 

Orson Cazier, State Protection Nephi 

T. C. Winn, Transportation '. ; — . Nephi 

Amj^ B. Grover, Women's Work Nephi 



Tintic District 

J. F. Burch, Chairman Silver City 

C. E. Huish „Eureka 

Walter Fitch, Jr ....Eureka 



Kane County 

Heber J. Meeks, Chairman, Finance Kanab 

W. T. Dobson. Secretary, Publicity Kanab 

John F. Brown. Legal _ ....Kanab 

Urban H. Norris. Sanitation and Medicine „ Kanab 

W. W. Seegmiller, Food Supply and Conservation Kanab 

David Rust, Industrial Survey .......Kanab 

Israel Heaton, Labor Kanab 

John W. Glazier, Military AflFairs Kanab 

Geo. H. Robinson. State Protection Kanab 

C. John Smith, Transportation ^ Glendale 

Edward Carroll, Survey of Man Power Order\-ille 

Rose H. Hamblin, Women's Work Kanab 



562-5' 



66 

Millard County 

Geo. W. Xixon, Finance I'^illmorc 

Jos. Smith. Publicity Fillmore 

Wm. llippins, Secretary, Legal Fillmore 

\Vm. R. Thompson, Sanitation and Medicine Scipio 

Jacob Ilawley, Food Supply and Constrvation Oasis 

Jas. A. Melville. Industrial Survey Delta 

J. A. Kelly, Labor ;. Fillmore 

Alonzo Kimble, Military Affairs Kanosh 

Daniel Stevens, Ciiairman. State Protection Fillmore 

M. M. Steele, Transportation Delta 

Wm. T. Pratt, Survey of Man Power Hinckley 

Miss Millie Callister, Women's Work Fillmore 



Morgan County. 

Charles Heiner, Finance Morgan 

Warren Porter, Secretary, Legal Morgan 

C. H. Ruble, Publicity Morgan 

R. J. Richards, Sanitation and Medicine ..- Morgan 

Daniel Heiner, Chairman. Food Supply and Conservation Morgan 

H. B. Crouch, Military Affairs Morgan 

J. S. Hopkins, State Protection , Morgan 

Willard Toone, Transportation Morgan 

Levi Waldren, Survey of Man Power Morgan 

Mrs. Maytie S. Turner, Women's Work Morgan 



Piute County 

W. E. Bay, Secretary, Finance Junction 

D. H. Robinson, Sanitation and Medcine Junction 

Joseph Ipson, Food Supply and Conservation Junction 

A. F. Haycock. Chairman, Industrial Survey Circleville 

Earl Willis, Military Affairs Marysvale 

Reuben DcWitt, State Protection Marysvale 

Garfield James, Transportation Marysvale 

W. H. Luke, Survey of Man Power junction 



Rich County 

Arch McKinnon, Chairman, Finance Randolph 

Fred R. Mo'j-im. Publicity Randolph 

Jas. W. Walton, Legal ._. Randolph 

Dr. M. D. Reay, Sanitation and Medicine Randolph 

G. H. Robinson, I'^ood Supply and Conservation Laketown 

J. S. Pusey. Lidustrial Survey Woodruff 

Shelby Huffakcr, Labor Woodruff 

Wm. E. Marshall, Military Affairs Randolph 

J. G. Muir, State Protection Randolph 

Hyrum Xebeker, Transi)ortation laketown 

Peter M. McKinnon, Secretary, Survey oi Man Power Randolph 

Mrs. C. W. Walton, Women's Work Randolph 



67 

SALT LAKE CITY 

W. Mont Ferry Mayor 

Lee Charles Miller — - Chairman 

J. David Larson Executive Secretary 

Committees 

Finance — 

Lee Charles Miller 803 Kearns Bldg. 

Heber J. Grant, J. David. Larson 

Publicity — 
James B. Whitehill : 618 Kearns Bldg. 

Legal — 
James Ingebretsen. 

Sanitation and Medicine — 
James L. Franken 22 N. Walcott Avenue 

Food Supply — 
Dr. John A. Widtsoe. 

Conservation — 

Mrs. C. H. McMahon 86 B Street 

Mrs. Geo. M. Bacon .87 U Street 

Mrs. Jeanette A. Hyde , Presiding Bishop's Bldg. 

Industrial Survey — 
W. C. Orem. 

Labor — 
Otto E. Asbridge ^ 953 Brooks Avenue 

Military Affairs — 

David A. Smith 40 North Main Street 

P. J. Moran .- — - ..............504 Felt Bldg. 

State Protection — 

William Spry 368 First Avenue 

F. C. Richmond. 

Transportation — 
J. A. Reeves Care O. S. L., Descret News Bldg. 

Survey of Man Pow^er — 
S. R. Lich 520 Kearns Bldg. 



Salt Lake County 

David McMillan, Chairman, Finance Murray 

C. L. Countryman, Publicity Bingham 

David W. Moffat, Secretary, Legal Murray 

Dr. F. E. Straup. Sanitation and Medicine Bingham 

W. C. Winder, Food Supply and Constrvation 

403 E. Twenty-seventh South, Salt Lake City 

Wm. W. Le Cheminant, Industrial Survey Garriold 

Frank Nelson, Labor HoUiday 

J. W. McHenry, Military Affairs Murray 

J. A. Roswell, State Protection Afagna 

P. Bintz, Transportation Murray 

T. W. Dimond, Survey of Man Power Murrav 

Mrs. T. W. Dimond, Women's Work R. D. No. 6. Murray 



68 

San Juan County 

Geo. A. Adams. Chairman, Finance ...Monticello 

A. B.^ Burton. PubUcity Monticello 

O. \V. McConkie. Legal Monticello 

Dr. H. S. Hussy, Sanitation and Medicine Monticello 

L. H. Redd. Food Supply and Conservation Blanding 

Nephi Bailey, Industrial Survey Monticello 

J. H. Wood, Labor Monticello 

Jos. W. Hansen, Military Affairs Monticello 

J. A. Scorup. State Protection. 

Edward P. I.yman, Transportation * Blanding 

H. H. Redd, Survey of Man Power Bluff 

H. E. Blake. Secretary ' Monticello 

Mrs. Anna M. Decker. Women's Work ; Monticello 



Sanpete County 

N. S. Xielson, Finance ^ Mt. Pleasant 

Burke McArthur. Secretary, Publicity Mt. Pleasant 

J. W. Cherry. Chairman, Legal ....Mt. Pleasant 

Ed. Johnston, Sanitation and Medicine Mt. Pleasant 

L. R. .-\iiderson. Food Supply and Conservation Manti 

Orlando Bradley. Industrial Survey Moroni 

Christian Wiliardson, Labor Ephraim 

J. M. Johnson. Military .\ffairs Spring City 

H. R. Thomas, State Protection Wales 

T. W. Rees, Transportation Wales 

L. P. Brady, Survey of Man Power Fairview 

Mrs. G. W. Martin, Women's Work Manti 



Sevier County 

Guy Lewis, Finance ...Richfield 

J. L. Ewing. Publicity :.. Richfield 

E. E. Hoffman, Legal ...„ Ricliheld 

J. J. Steiner, Sanitation and Medicine Richfield 

R. D. Young, Chairman, Food Supply and Conservation Riclificld 

J. E. Heppler, Industrial Survey Richfield 

Byron Hanchett. Labor .\nnabella 

C. M. Heppler, Military Affairs Richfield 

Parley Maglcby. Secretary. State Protection Richfield 

Wm. Johnson. Transportation Richfield 

P. C. Scorup, Survey of Man Power Richfield 

Mrs. Olive Anderson, Women's Work Richfield 



Summit County 

W. D. Sutton, Chairman, Finance Park City 

S. L. Raddon. Publicity Park City 

P. H. Neely, Legal Coalville 

John L. Boyden. Secretary, Sanitary and Medicine Park City 

Aaron Bracken, Food Supply and Conservation Coalville 

R. L. King, Industrial Survey Kamas 

A. P. Ridge. Military Affairs Park City 

J. J. Dahl, State Protection Gorgorza 

Sherman Fargo, Transi)ortation Park City 

Henry Welsh, Survey of Man Power Park City 

Margaret R. Salmon, Women's Work „ Coalville 



69 

Tooele County 

Eugene T. Wooley. Finance Grantsville 

L. E. Kramer, Publicity Tooele 

P. M. Clegg, Legal Tooele 

Archibald Bevan, Sanitation and Medicine Tooele 

C. A. Orme, Food Supply and Conservation Tooele 

W. E. Matthews, Industrial Survey Grantsville 

Fred Bryan, Labor .-.. - Erda 

C. R. McBride, Chairman, Military Affairs Tooele 

C. R. Rowberry, State Protection Grantsville 

J. B. Hickman, Secretary, Transportation Stockton 

Walter James, Survey of Man Power Vernon 

H. M. Hartman, Minerals Tooele 

E. O. Sowerwine, Smelting Tooele 

Mrs. Lyman A. McBride, Women's Work Tooele 

F. W. Lane, Manufacturing Burmester 



Uintah County 

L. W. Curry, Chairman, Finance .— .—Vernal 

Wm. yi. Anderson, Publicity Vernal 

T. W. O'Donnell, Legal Vernal 

Dr. M. Garrett O'Donnell, Sanitation and Medicine Vernal 

Don B. Colton, Food Supply and Conservation Vernal 

Enos Bennion. Industrial Survey Vernal 

James H. Wallis. Labor Vernal 

L. H. Allan, Military Affairs Vernal 

John N. Davis, State Protection Vernal 

J. T. Nichols, Transportation Fort Duchesne 

Geo. W. Perry, Survey of Man Power Vernal 

June P. Allan, Secretary Vernal 

Nancy A. Colton, Women's Work Vernal 

Utah County 

A. P. Merrill, Chairman, Finance Provo 

I. H. Masters, Publicity Provo 

J. W. Robinson, Legal -. Provo 

Dr. Andy J. Stewart, Sanitation and Medicine Provo 

J. W. Alleman, Food Supply and Conservation Springville 

James M. Kirkham, Industrial Survey Lehi 

J. William Knight, Labor .-- Provo 

J. B. Tucker, Secretary. Military Affairs Provo 

Jos. H. Storrs, Second Vice-Chairman, State Protection Am. Fork 

Melvin Wilson, First Vice-Chairman, Transportation Payson 

Pratt Thomas, Survey of Man Power Spanish Fork 

Inez K. .A.llen, Women's Work Provo 

Wasatch County 

J. W. Clyde, Chairman, Finance Heber 

Chas. N. Broadbent, Publicity Heber 

L. C. Montgomery, Secretary, Legal Heber 

D. A. Broadbent. Sanitation and Medicine Heber 

J. R. Murdock, Food Supply and Conservation Heber 

Jas. B. Wilson, Industrial Survey Midway 

H. T. Coleman, Labor Midwav 



^0 

Geo. A. F"islier, Military Affairs .^ ^ Hcbcr 

John A. Fortie, State Protection Heber 

John M. Ritchie, Transportation •.... Charleston 

Simon Epperson, Survey of Man Power Heber 

Mrs. W. R. Wherritt, Women's Work ....^ Heber 

Washington County 

Chas. G. Y. Higgins, Secretary St. George 

Warren Cox", Finance St. George 

John R. Wallis. Chairman, Publicity St. George- 

D. H. Morris, Legal '. St. George 

D. C. Watson. Sanitation and Medicine St. George 

E. H. Snow, Food Supply and Conservation St. George 

.-Mbert E. Miller, Labor St. George 

Chas. R. Worthen. Military Affairs St. George 

Arthur Paxnian. State Protection Washington 

Thomas Judd, Industrial Survey St. George 

Jos. T. Atkin, Transportation St. George 

John T. Woodbury. Survey of Man Power St. George 

Miss Florence Foremaster. Women's Work St. George 

Wajme County 

Sylvester C. Williams. Chairman, Finance Teasdale 

M ichael 1 1 anson. Publicity Loa 

Silas E. Tanner. Legal Loa 

Dr. G. Cassct Nelson, Sanitation and Medicine Loa 

Chas. Snow. Food Supply and Conservation Teasdale 

Levi A. Colvin, Industrial Survey Loa 

John S. Hiskey, Labor ....Teasdale 

Tracy Colvin, Military .Affairs Loa 

Taylor Duncan. State Protection Fremont 

F. E. Brown, Secretary, Transportation Loa 

Willard BrinkerhofT. Survey of Man Power Teasdale 

Mrs. Francis C. Callahan. Vice-Chairman. Women's Work Loa 

Weber County 

Chapin A. Day. Finance Ogden 

Frank Francis, Publicity Ogden 

C. R. Hollingsworth. Legal Ogden 

Dr. E. ^L Conroy, Chairman, Sanitation and Medicine Ogden 

Donald D. McKay, Food Supply and Conservation Ogden 

J. U. Eldredge, Jr.. Secretary. Industrial Survey Ogden 

Thos. G. Burt, Labor Ogden 

Chas. H. Barton, Military .\fTairs Ogden 

Joseph Chez, State Protection Ogden 

Royal Eccles, Transportation Ogden 

Guy Johnson. Survey of Man Power Ogden 

Mrs. H. H. Spencer, Women's Work Ogden 



71 

COUNTY WAR HISTORY COMMITTEES 

Arch jM. Thurman :— State War Historian 

Mary Gilmer Rankin Assistant War Historian 

Beaver Mr. Russell E. Parsons, Chairman Beaver 

Box Elder Mr. S. Norman Lee, Chairman Brigham City 

Miss Louise Ingram Brigham City 

Mr. William J. Lowe Brigham City 

Cache Mr. 'SI. R. Hovey, Chairman Logan 

Carbon Mr. E. S. Horsley, Chairman Price 

Davis Mr. W. P. Epperson, Chairman Kaysville 

Mr. Seth C. Jones Farmington 

Mr. Geo. Q. Knowlton Farmington 

Mr. F. B. Muir, Secretary Kaysville 

Mr. E. G. King Layton 

Duchesne Mrs. Mary Orser, Chairman Roosevelt 

Mr. A. N. Alt Duchesne 

Mr. C. B. Cook Myton 

Emery Mr. Victor C. Anderson Castle Dale 

Garfield 

Grand Mr. A. E. Jones, Chairman Moab 

Miss Eola Moore Moab 

Miss Cecelia Beyer Moab 

iron Mr. L. John Xuttall, Jr., Chairman Cedar City 

Mrs. ]: P. Fuller Cedar City 

Ruby Leigh Cedar City 

Juab Ray Stuart, Chairman Nephi 

Tintic District 

Pat Bonner, Chairman Eureka 

W. R. Wrightman Silver City 

Ed. W. Redmond Eureka 

Kane David D. Rust Kanab 

Mrs. Elsie C. Carroll Kanab 

Mr. Leo Chamberlain .....— — Kanab 

Millard 

East Millard Adolph Hansen Scipio 

West Millard ....Mr. Willis E. Robinson Hinckley 

Morgan Mr. W. G. Brough ....Morgan 

Mr. Roy E. Francis Morgan 

Mr. Geo. A. Seaman, Chairman Morgan 

Piute Mr. D. H. Robinson, Chairman Junction 

Rich Mrs. Louie Coles Randolph 

Salt Lake City Mrs. Elizabeth H. Coray War Mothers of Utah 

Salt Lake Co Mr. C. E. Gaufin Murray 

Mr. D. C. Jensen Sandy 

Mrs. J. M. Mills 1250 E. 5th So., Salt Lake City 



72 

San Juan ^Mr. II. 1„ Hlakc Moiitict-llo 

Mr. Clias. Walton, Chairman Monticello 

Mr. James Decker Bluff 

Sanpete .Mr. Glen .\. Jensen, Chairman Manti 

Mr. H. C. Jacobs Mt. Pleasant 

Miss Jennie T. Johnson Mt. Pleasant 

Sevier Mr. Geo. M. Jones Richfield 

Summit >Mr. J. L. Boyden, Chairman Coalville 

Mrs. Kate Kimball Coalville 

Tooele Dr. L. .\. McBride Tooele 

Uintah County Council of Defense Vernal 

Utah A. P. Merrill, Chairman Provo 

Wasatch David .K. Broadbent Heber City 

Simon Epperson Heber City 

John A. Fortic Heber City 

Washinj?ton Mrs. Josephine Miles, Chairman St. George 

Mrs. Lucy Kcate St. George 

Mrs. Laura Gates St. George 

Wayne Miss Anna Snow, Chairman Teasdale 

Mr. Ellis Robinson Cainville 

Mrs. Emma Balle Fremont 

Daggett Mr. Keith Smith, Chairman Linwood 

Weber Mrs. J. G. Falck, Chairman Ogden 

Mrs. Mack Garr Ogden 

Mrs. John Flygare Ogden 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS A 

1111111111111111* 

020 933 477 A 



